From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Mar 31 20:48:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from sj-msg-core-1.cisco.com (sj-msg-core-1.cisco.com [171.71.163.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6865637B718; Sat, 31 Mar 2001 20:48:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmah@cisco.com) Received: from bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com (bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com [171.70.84.42]) by sj-msg-core-1.cisco.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAA20889; Sat, 31 Mar 2001 20:48:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bmah@localhost) by bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f314lvB82505; Sat, 31 Mar 2001 20:47:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmah) Message-Id: <200104010447.f314lvB82505@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/19/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Anton Berezin Cc: "Bruce A. Mah" , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, knu@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg_version comparison routine In-Reply-To: <20010329014745.E34676@heechee.tobez.org> References: <200103280237.f2S2bUP02277@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> <20010328231956.B34676@heechee.tobez.org> <200103282335.f2SNZ2526600@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> <20010329014745.E34676@heechee.tobez.org> Comments: In-reply-to Anton Berezin message dated "Thu, 29 Mar 2001 01:47:45 +0200." From: bmah@freebsd.org (Bruce A. Mah) Reply-To: bmah@freebsd.org X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_2092827212P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 20:47:56 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --==_Exmh_2092827212P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, Anton Berezin wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 03:35:02PM -0800, Bruce A. Mah wrote: [snip] > > What's the licensing on this thing? (pkg_version is part of the base > > system now, for better or worse, so we'd need to import this code into > > src/.) > > The usual `same as perl' thingy. I.e., either GPL or Artistic, user's > choice. If necessary, I am sure it is possible to negotiate with the > author, Kenneth J. Albanowski . This name sounds really familiar...I'm trying to figure out if I know him or not. Must have seen his name on some other code. > > Other than that the only thing that comes to mind is NIH, which I'll > > freely admit to. :-) > > Heh. First I encountered similar code in Mandrake (!) rpm tools or > something. It was GPL and it was was *horribly* twisted: [snip] I'm not even going to pretend to understand that. For now, I think I'm going to to stick with what I've got (because I can at least understand it...even though it's not as compact as what kjahds wrote). But if someone finds a problem with it, one that cannot be fixed easily, I'll revisit the thing you pointed me to. How's that? Thanks in any case for the reference...I do appreciate it. > May the tuna salad be with you. I'm not even going to pretend to understand that either. Bruce. --==_Exmh_2092827212P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 iD8DBQE6xrL82MoxcVugUsMRAuMBAJ9whxjApFm0nF7f5hzM4WImOdTE3ACeLMs/ EPg/qsw4qqar/pOipSPW6lU= =kbsM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_2092827212P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message