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Date:      Sat, 12 Jan 2002 14:44:07 -0600
From:      Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu>
To:        Pat Wendorf <beholder@unios.dhs.org>
Cc:        Nuno Teixeira <nunotex@pt-quorum.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Portupgrade Utility
Message-ID:  <3C40A017.61885E5A@math.missouri.edu>
References:  <3C38AFF2.5020708@unios.dhs.org> <20020106213531.GE19117@gw.tex.bogus> <3C4083F4.9000900@unios.dhs.org>

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Pat Wendorf wrote:
> 
> Anyone thought of re-coding it in perl? I know little about either
> language, so I applogize if this sounds stupid.
> 


I know nothing about ruby, but I have programmed in perl.  For writing
large programs, it can be troublesome, and I think it would be a lot of
work to convert it from ruby to perl.  Certainly it would introduce
bugs.



Furthermore, I see no reason why anyone would want to put portupgrade
into the base system.  It takes about five minutes to install the
additional port or package if you want it.  (Well maybe longer if you
have a slow system, but the time to install will be insignificant.)


-- 
Stephen Montgomery-Smith
stephen@math.missouri.edu
http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen

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