From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jan 12 12:44:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from femail36.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail36.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.254.60.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15B1D37B405 for ; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 12:44:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from math.missouri.edu ([24.12.197.197]) by femail36.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20020112204407.FXON12682.femail36.sdc1.sfba.home.com@math.missouri.edu>; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 12:44:07 -0800 Message-ID: <3C40A017.61885E5A@math.missouri.edu> Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 14:44:07 -0600 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pat Wendorf Cc: Nuno Teixeira , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Portupgrade Utility References: <3C38AFF2.5020708@unios.dhs.org> <20020106213531.GE19117@gw.tex.bogus> <3C4083F4.9000900@unios.dhs.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message