From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jan 12 12:30:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtp017.mail.yahoo.com (smtp017.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.174.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 35D9D37B41A for ; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 12:30:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from dial-up-mi-522.lombardiacom.it (HELO max) (212.34.227.14) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 12 Jan 2002 20:30:28 -0000 Message-ID: <000701c19ba7$c1c01800$0300a8c0@max> From: "Massimiliano Stucchi" To: "Andrew J Caines" , "Pat Wendorf" Cc: "Nuno Teixeira" , References: <3C38AFF2.5020708@unios.dhs.org> <20020106213531.GE19117@gw.tex.bogus> <3C4083F4.9000900@unios.dhs.org> <20020112151622.H40697@hal9000.halplant.com> Subject: Re: Portupgrade Utility Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 21:28:00 +0100 Organization: WillyStudios, Inc. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Anyway, if not portupgrade, why not include cvsup in the base system, as I think we're talking about a really necessary utility ? Massimiliano Stucchi ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew J Caines" To: "Pat Wendorf" Cc: "Nuno Teixeira" ; Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 9:16 PM Subject: Re: Portupgrade Utility > Pat, > > > Anyone thought of re-coding it in perl? I know little about either > > language, so I applogize if this sounds stupid. > > While the dependencies would be a big issue affecting consideration of > making a tool part of the base system, in this case we are talking about a > tool for the ports system only. > > It would make little sense to put it in the base system even if it had no > dependencies. > > > -Andrew- > -- > _______________________________________________________________________ > | -Andrew J. Caines- Unix Systems Engineer A.J.Caines@halplant.com | > | "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary | > | safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin, 1759 | > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message