From owner-freebsd-libh Tue Jun 19 15:37:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-libh@freebsd.org Received: from meow.osd.bsdi.com (meow.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B29237B401 for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 15:37:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@jhb-laptop.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.241]) by meow.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.3/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f5JMan116814; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 15:36:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20010619161234.Q65489@bohr.physics.purdue.edu> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 15:15:14 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: Will Andrews Subject: Re: packagetool.tcl Cc: libh@FreeBSD.org, Richy Kim , Alexander Langer , (LMC) Sender: owner-freebsd-libh@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 19-Jun-01 Will Andrews wrote: >> I think supporting the old package format will somehow be mandatory, or >> it will create total panic. > > Absolutely. I think having a little subroutine in libh to > "convert" the old package format to the new would be a good idea. Err, I would rather do this: 1) provide a package library that serves as the glue between libh's internal package API and the old package format 2) provide an actual utilitiy (a routine isn't quite going to cut it :) that will repackage an old package as a libh package -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-libh" in the body of the message