Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 09:07:45 -0700 From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: Maxime Henrion <mux@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rewrite cvsup & portupgrade in C Message-ID: <20040707160745.GA39557@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20040707152149.GG82302@elvis.mu.org> References: <E1Bhd1M-000KEo-Nz@smp500.sitetronics.com> <200407062323.02854.kirk@strauser.com> <20040707043251.GA35651@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <200407062345.24117.kirk@strauser.com> <20040707070012.GC38356@dragon.nuxi.com> <40EC11EB.4060804@sympatico.ca> <20040707152149.GG82302@elvis.mu.org>
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On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 05:21:49PM +0200, Maxime Henrion wrote: > > So now, please everybody listen. I did look at the code. I chose C and > while it's probably not the best language to write CVSup with, it's far > from being bad at this task. It has actually been _very_ helpful for > some parts of the code. And finally, I'm doing the work here and it > works. If you think I'm wasting my time and prefer to use the m3 version, > noone will prevent you from doing so. If you want to rewrite CVSup in yet > another language for some reason, noone will prevent you from doing so. > My initial argument does not invlove the language. I don't care about the language. My argument is that neither cvsup nor csup belong in the base system. Both utilities can be installed from ports. If you're going to import csup, then I hope csup goes through a security audit and you define a NO_CSUP make.conf variable. It is Kirk's incessant rambling that ezm3 isn't portable to other OSes; therefore, csup should be in the base system that I find illogical. -- Steve
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