From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 4 9:57:49 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AA6237B405 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 09:57:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from mired.org (ip68-97-54-220.ok.ok.cox.net [68.97.54.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9AA5243F3F for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 09:57:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1047232665.61a919@mired.org) Received: (qmail 33198 invoked from network); 4 Mar 2003 17:57:45 -0000 Received: from localhost.mired.org (HELO guru.mired.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.mired.org with SMTP; 4 Mar 2003 17:57:45 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15972.59672.687502.11959@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 11:57:44 -0600 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Portupgrade -- revisited In-Reply-To: <20030304160644.GA447@willow.raggedclown.intra> References: <5.2.0.9.0.20030303115100.00a245c0@127.0.0.1> <200303031942.02216.kstewart@owt.com> <20030304081640.GB4319@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <200303040045.19594.kstewart@owt.com> <20030304090008.GC4319@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <20030304160644.GA447@willow.raggedclown.intra> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.70 (Pensive) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In <20030304160644.GA447@willow.raggedclown.intra>, Cliff Sarginson typed: > Portupgrade has too many ways it can go wrong for mere mortals. > I have offered to re-write it. > It will be a mega-project, but my offer is serious. > And ruby (don't take our love to town) will place a less than significant > role. So what are you going to write it in? C? BTW, did you know your email to freebsd-questions has an invalid From: field in it? I keep getting bounces with host not found for . http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message