From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Jul 13 21:22:23 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 36E8B37B400 for ; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 21:22:21 -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 29E5543E31 for ; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 21:22:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jos@catnook.com) Received: (qmail 6537 invoked by uid 1000); 14 Jul 2002 04:22:37 -0000 Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 21:22:15 -0700 From: Jos Backus To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Package system flaws? Message-ID: <20020714042237.GD931@lizzy.catnook.com> Reply-To: jos@catnook.com Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020706220511.GA88651@scoobysnax.jaded.net> <3D27A296.D58FB4B4@softweyr.com> <20020712121427.GD3678@lummux.tchpc.tcd.ie> <20020712144854.GA756@laurel.tmseck.homedns.org> <20020713054141.A26277@misty.eyesbeyond.com> <20020713011750.GA755@laurel.tmseck.homedns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020713011750.GA755@laurel.tmseck.homedns.org> 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 Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 03:17:50AM +0200, Thomas Seck wrote: > A tool like portupgrade should not exist (and it should not have been > written in Ruby - yet another dependency to track). Indeed. We should try hard to keep powerful, easy to use, general-purpose, high-level scripting languages out of the base system. After all, we have C/ awk/sed/sh etc., and anything that can be done with those scripting languages can also be done with these traditional tools. -- 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