From owner-freebsd-libh Tue Jun 19 12:26:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-libh@freebsd.org Received: from meow.osd.bsdi.com (meow.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F97F37B407 for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 12:26:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@jhb-laptop.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.241]) by meow.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.3/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f5JJQC114202; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 12:26:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20010619210041.A2304@zerogravity.kawo2.rwth-aachen.d> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 11:44:42 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: Alexander Langer Subject: Re: packagetool.tcl Cc: Richy Kim , libh@FreeBSD.org, Will Andrews Sender: owner-freebsd-libh@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 19-Jun-01 Alexander Langer wrote: > Thus spake John Baldwin (jhb@FreeBSD.org): > >> It is modular enough (I think and hope) that one can simply "plug in" >> another >> package library at the bottom to support multiple package styles. > > Do we want support for multiple package formats? > Libh's format hasn't etablished yet and I wonder if it ever will. > What do you think? I can focus on libh's current package format if > people think it's worth it. I think it is worth it because there is actual code there. Also, for transition purposes, it might be good to support the "old" package format we currently have as well, thus if it abstracts packages somewhat so that it can support multiple package formats, that would be very nice. However, it also needs to be finished sometime, so don't do it if it is too much work. Regardless, I would not axe its current package format for the time being. We can change it to support OP later when OP is better defined. > Alex -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-libh" in the body of the message