From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 21 22:40:42 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 73597815 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 22:40:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from luigi.brtsvcs.net (luigi.brtsvcs.net [IPv6:2607:fc50:1000:1f00::2]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4D75F834 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 22:40:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from chombo.houseloki.net (c-71-59-211-166.hsd1.or.comcast.net [71.59.211.166]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by luigi.brtsvcs.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DF88B2D4FB4; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 22:40:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [IPv6:2601:7:2580:674:baca:3aff:fe83:bd29] (ivy.libssl.so [IPv6:2601:7:2580:674:baca:3aff:fe83:bd29]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by chombo.houseloki.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A2F99FDC; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 14:40:30 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <546FBF60.70506@bluerosetech.com> Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 14:40:32 -0800 From: Darren Pilgrim Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris H Subject: Re: send-pr must live References: , <11d24756184c5b6f3339f6e645957f86@ultimatedns.net> In-Reply-To: <11d24756184c5b6f3339f6e645957f86@ultimatedns.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 22:40:42 -0000 On 11/20/2014 10:09 AM, Chris H wrote: > As to it having been shell based. While there's nothing wrong with > that at all, in fact it's advantageous in many respects. I was toying > with the idea of perhaps converting (augmenting) it to being Perl > based, by way of a statically linked mini-perl interpreter. I thought > it would better *empower* it, also providing for a more "user friendly" > dialog. But, like I said; just *toying* with the idea. :) You can use any language you like; but you'll need to use Bourne if you want it in base.