Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 20:39:22 +0200 From: Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de> To: Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.co.uk> Cc: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com>, Antoine.Beaupre@ericsson.ca, Antoine.Beaupre@lmc.ericsson.se, jhb@FreeBSD.ORG, richy@apple.com, libh@FreeBSD.ORG, will@physics.purdue.edu Subject: Re: packagetool.tcl Message-ID: <20010621203922.C2091@zerogravity.kawo2.rwth-aachen.d> In-Reply-To: <3790000.993056666@lobster.originative.co.uk>; from paul@freebsd-services.co.uk on Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 06:04:26PM %2B0100 References: <20010620092551G.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <3790000.993056666@lobster.originative.co.uk>
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Thus spake Paul Richards (paul@freebsd-services.co.uk): > 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. Actually, you need a binary of the libh TCL interpreter. OTOH, you also need a binary of cvsup to follow src, I think it's quite similar. > 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. What is your definition of a pkg management tool? Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-libh" in the body of the message
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