From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Jul 14 9:42:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B792837B400 for ; Sun, 14 Jul 2002 09:42:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from w250.z064001178.sjc-ca.dsl.cnc.net (adsl-66.218.45.239.dslextreme.com [66.218.45.239]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 12ECC43E31 for ; Sun, 14 Jul 2002 09:42:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jos@catnook.com) Received: (qmail 80547 invoked by uid 1000); 14 Jul 2002 16:43:04 -0000 Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 09:42:42 -0701 From: Jos Backus To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Package system flaws? Message-ID: <20020714164304.GA32774@lizzy.catnook.com> Reply-To: jos@catnook.com Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020712121427.GD3678@lummux.tchpc.tcd.ie> <20020712144854.GA756@laurel.tmseck.homedns.org> <20020713054141.A26277@misty.eyesbeyond.com> <20020713011750.GA755@laurel.tmseck.homedns.org> <20020714042237.GD931@lizzy.catnook.com> <20020714042623.GB95460@squall.waterspout.com> <20020714095939.GA588@laurel.tmseck.homedns.org> <200207141333.g6EDXj0L031673@whizzo.transsys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200207141333.g6EDXj0L031673@whizzo.transsys.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 09:33:45AM -0400, Louis A. Mamakos wrote: > I suspect the only result of an attempt to re-write sysutils/portupgrade > in a different language will be that the current developer of that tool > will disappear. I suspect he chose his implementation lanaguge for a > reason. Do you want the tool and developer, or a version in awk/sed/C? In case it wasn't clear, my previous remark was meant in jest. I would rather have the tool (and the developer). Part of me still thinks it's a pity that we don't have a decent scripting language (such as Ruby) as part of the base OS. Windows has Visual BASIC for Applications - all due respect to the awk creators and maintainers, but surely we can do better than awk/sh? -- Jos Backus _/ _/_/_/ Santa Clara, CA _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ jos@catnook.com _/_/ _/_/_/ require 'std/disclaimer' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message