From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 16 09:04:16 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 133B016A417 for ; Sun, 16 Dec 2007 09:04:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.179]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B296713C43E for ; Sun, 16 Dec 2007 09:04:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id u77so2675628pyb.3 for ; Sun, 16 Dec 2007 01:04:15 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=19FRA9FBsHz4PbSnBaRTUk9bSxgGtUGrg/Eh1kYBvg0=; b=weL9RgO/1apW3cVplhNKK7YbiGv8qC0+00qXbrM14I9YCVTgOZpqHzWvEVlhBFAqaFsW13otJtOPtfge9ST9fDc2UO06/dQlQcU2/VjtXVNbayrHDmXYk9LkvxKpvU+jHcSDCmPkw1CqRNbA0/7BlwqFF1Q5yXls6R+REof5J8g= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=OCZuLdoYVxHN9PzeZo2JNwjBmPBXvLtt8PAUa/LDV23aMmsjk1Zc+XdJ7zZn7bWPj5cFIBtTIbOgAr5gUlwe02olI1wi6mvRZC1HbvvAmBfFUR4McA80jB9pp15GsCj/o0m1USHR6I53eGa7MmmvXlRd7ywBlgTribjvYE97tjk= Received: by 10.65.219.20 with SMTP id w20mr11792434qbq.5.1197795854502; Sun, 16 Dec 2007 01:04:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.2.2? ( [67.85.89.184]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id a29sm3113564qbd.2007.12.16.01.04.13 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 16 Dec 2007 01:04:13 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4764EA0C.1010006@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 04:04:12 -0500 From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071214) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Linimon References: <20071216060057.GA23941@soaustin.net> In-Reply-To: <20071216060057.GA23941@soaustin.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ade@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Limitations of Ports System X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 09:04:16 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mark Linimon wrote: >> Side note the more we discuss this the more obvious it becomes to me >> it has to be in some OO lang and since C++ is the only one in the base >> system it kind of forces C++ to be the implementation lang. > > You may want to take a look at some of the work OpenBSD has done > recently; I believe they are working towards treating ports as > first-class objects. Actually that is one of the key reasons for C++ vs. C is if we treat a port as a first class object it becomes pretty trivial to manipulate it in a DAG without having to worry about any nasty details until we build it. - -- Aryeh M. Friedman FloSoft Systems http://www.flosoft-systems.com Developer, not business, friendly -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHZOoMzIOMjAek4JIRAlhEAJ0SSDnFWD184hMGHFjEtrT6DqPv3gCdEzD/ ak3puLnBhSL6ZjZtZOBGYRU= =hBcQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----