From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 21 03:52:46 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBB5A16A402 for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 03:52:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout5.cac.washington.edu (mxout5.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.135]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BDEC13C4BE for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 03:52:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.33.7] (may be forged)) by mxout5.cac.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW07.03) with ESMTP id l2L3qk8c017762 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:52:46 -0700 X-Auth-Received: from [192.168.10.41] (c-67-187-172-183.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.187.172.183]) (authenticated authid=youshi10) by smtp.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW07.03) with ESMTP id l2L3qj0O023451 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:52:45 -0700 Message-ID: <4600AC05.4000004@u.washington.edu> Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:52:37 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070316) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-Version: 5.3.0.289146, Antispam-Engine: 2.5.0.283055, Antispam-Data: 2007.3.20.204434 X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0, __USER_AGENT 0' Subject: A review of different port management tools : analysis for Google SoC project 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: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 03:52:46 -0000 Hi all, I know this may be more of a questions@ type of question, but I was wondering if some people could provide me with short history (beyond the last 3 months) and the tipping points of portmaster vs the portupgrade, portinstall, etc tools. I know portmaster is a bourne shell script and the portupgrade, portinstall, etc scripts are ruby based, so that's a given. I just want to know if there's a given solution that I could work with in improving the ports system and forge into a unified port/pkg management frontend (using bourne shell scripts and C), combined with the current package management tools in place (pkg_add, pkg_version, etc), as part of a Google Summer of Code proposal. Thank you very much for your help in trying to make a great OS even better. -Garrett