From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 7 11:22:06 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C419D37B405 for ; Mon, 7 Apr 2003 11:22:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thor.acuson.com (ac17859.acuson.com [157.226.71.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B59B43FCB for ; Mon, 7 Apr 2003 11:22:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DavidJohnson@Siemens.com) Received: from mvaexch02.acuson.com (mvaexch02.acuson.com [157.226.230.209]) by thor.acuson.com (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 (built Feb 21 2002)) with ESMTP id <0HCZ00B3XKBZST@thor.acuson.com> for freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2003 11:21:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mvaexch02.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Mon, 07 Apr 2003 11:12:20 -0700 Received: from dhcp-46-117.acuson.com ([157.226.46.117]) by mvaexch01.acuson.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id GNSX25MD; Mon, 07 Apr 2003 11:13:48 -0700 Content-return: allowed Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 11:21:39 -0700 From: Johnson David In-reply-to: <000401c2fc95$bfcc2930$c601a8c0@plasma> To: Peter , freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Message-id: <200304071121.39599.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> Organization: Siemens Medical Systems MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <20030406172035.GA45332@netpublishing.com> <3E90B919.8020207@i4free.co.nz> <000401c2fc95$bfcc2930$c601a8c0@plasma> Subject: Re: Brilliant and very useful for FreeBSD, IMHO X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 18:22:06 -0000 On Sunday 06 April 2003 04:39 pm, Peter wrote: > > Like barry in ports (sysutils/barry) > > Barry doesn't let you install ports though (as far as I know) it only > lets you view what's installed, and browse. Correct me if Im wrong. You are correct, at least from the last time I checked. I once thought of writing a GUI front end to portupgrade. Then I realized that that's part of the goal of the libh project. So why bother when libh would be out by the time I finished a stable 1.0? A nicer front end to cvsup would be a more useful project, particularly if it had a supfile configuration dialog of sorts. It's slow and dawdling, but I think libh will finally arrive if we're patient. I would help work on it, but I need a dedicated -unstable machine that I can afford to muck up. David