From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 7 18:25:12 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C42F616A4CE; Wed, 7 Jul 2004 18:25:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp4.server.rpi.edu (smtp4.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4548643D46; Wed, 7 Jul 2004 18:25:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp4.server.rpi.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i67IPAJc020878; Wed, 7 Jul 2004 14:25:11 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20040707152149.GG82302@elvis.mu.org> References: <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> Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 14:25:10 -0400 To: Maxime Henrion From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rewrite cvsup & portupgrade in C X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 18:25:12 -0000 If Maxime has the time and the will to rewrite cvsup in C, then there isn't much reason for anyone to argue with him over it. Things get done by people who do the actual work, not by people arguing on the mailing lists. I personally like Modula-3 as a language, and I wish it were more readily portable, etc. However, no matter what merits Modula-3 has as a computer language, the FreeBSD Project is pretty much a C-based project. It should not be all that much of a shock that a FreeBSD developer might want to rewrite CVSup in C, the same way that we have rewritten a number of Perl scripts into C. To me, the big question is "When will it be ready?". It would be nice if we could start testing the rewrite in wider variety of situations. We will need to do that if we hope to switch to using it. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu