From owner-freebsd-current Thu May 9 2: 2:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from shale.csir.co.za (shale.csir.co.za [146.64.46.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E696A37B40D; Thu, 9 May 2002 02:02:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from reg@localhost) by shale.csir.co.za (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g4991EG64192; Thu, 9 May 2002 11:01:14 +0200 (SAT) (envelope-from reg) Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 11:01:14 +0200 From: Jeremy Lea To: "Bruce A. Mah" Cc: Garrett Rooney , GB Clark , Peter Wemm , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The future of perl on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20020509110114.A64078@shale.csir.co.za> 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 User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <200205081608.g48G8W5p029919@intruder.bmah.org>; from bmah@FreeBSD.ORG on Wed, May 08, 2002 at 09:08:32AM -0700 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 Hi, On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 09:08:32AM -0700, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > Oh yes, pkg_version will need to be rewritten too, because it uses Perl. > I don't know how hard that will be...I haven't even looked at the code > in over a year. I don't have any interest in doing this, but I'm sure > one of you src/ gurus can whip something up. :-) I'll see if I can do something this weekend. It'll be in C, and make the version comparison part of the library. I'm not going to look at pkg_upgrade, because people are using portupgrade instead. Regards, -Jeremy -- FreeBSD - Because the best things in life are free... http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message