From owner-freebsd-libh Wed Jun 20 9:59:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-libh@freebsd.org Received: from mailgate.originative.co.uk (mailgate.originative.co.uk [62.232.68.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4981637B403; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 09:59:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from paul@freebsd-services.co.uk) Received: from lobster.originative.co.uk (lobster [62.232.68.81]) by mailgate.originative.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id A76461D13D; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 17:59:28 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 18:04:26 +0100 From: Paul Richards To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: Antoine.Beaupre@ericsson.ca, Antoine.Beaupre@lmc.ericsson.se, alex@big.endian.de, jhb@FreeBSD.ORG, richy@apple.com, libh@FreeBSD.ORG, will@physics.purdue.edu Subject: Re: packagetool.tcl Message-ID: <3790000.993056666@lobster.originative.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20010620092551G.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.0.8 (Linux/x86 Demo) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-libh@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --On Wednesday, June 20, 2001 09:25:51 -0700 Jordan Hubbard wrote: > I'm not touching that question with an 11 foot pole. :) > > I think it's simply too early to say yet. TCL is by far the least of > libh's dependencies, and one might just as well ask the same question > about Qt or TurboVision. It may be that by the time libh is ready to > deploy, we'll have cracked the whole /usr/ports vs /usr/src modularity > problem for all I know. I'd forgotten about QT/TurboVision :-) What's been stuck in my mind the last few days was Alex saying that the libh package format was "intelligent" and used embedded tcl inside the packages to do things. That would mean that the package format itself required tcl to work at all and therefore writing a pkg management tool in another language would be impossible. Maybe I miss understood that bit. Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-libh" in the body of the message