From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 8 9:33:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from isris.pair.com (isris.pair.com [209.68.2.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6C1AB37B43F for ; Wed, 8 May 2002 09:32:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 48539 invoked by uid 3130); 8 May 2002 16:32:27 -0000 Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 12:32:27 -0400 From: Garrett Rooney To: "Bruce A. Mah" Cc: GB Clark , Peter Wemm , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The future of perl on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20020508163227.GF85290@electricjellyfish.net> References: <20020508075112.66AB638FD@overcee.wemm.org> <20020508035501.72d32dfc.gclarkii@vsservices.com> <20020508155202.GE85290@electricjellyfish.net> <200205081608.g48G8W5p029919@intruder.bmah.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200205081608.g48G8W5p029919@intruder.bmah.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 09:08:32AM -0700, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > If memory serves me right, Garrett Rooney wrote: > > On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 03:55:01AM -0500, GB Clark wrote: > > > > So you want to take out perl and replace it with ruby? The portupgrade > > > package is a ruby script, not C. > > > > i think he meant that we should remove it, and if people want the > > functionality they should be directed to install the portupgrade > > package from ports. it works much better than pkg_update anyway, i > > even recall seeing a post from the original author of pkg_update > > saying just that a while back. > > I don't know if the author of pkg_update has ever said that, but the > author of pkg_version (yours truly) has said something like this on > multiple occasions (with respect to pkg_version's -c option). that may have been what i was thinking of. if so, appologies to the author of pkg_update for misquoting him. -garrett -- garrett rooney Remember, any design flaw you're rooneg@electricjellyfish.net sufficiently snide about becomes http://electricjellyfish.net/ a feature. -- Dan Sugalski To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message