Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 10:23:16 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rewrite cvsup & portupgrade in C Message-ID: <p06002039bd11631ca135@[10.0.1.3]> In-Reply-To: <20040707070012.GC38356@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <E1Bhd1M-000KEo-Nz@smp500.sitetronics.com> <200407062323.02854.kirk@strauser.com> <20040707043251.GA35651@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <200407062345.24117.kirk@strauser.com> <20040707070012.GC38356@dragon.nuxi.com>
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At 12:00 AM -0700 2004-07-07, David O'Brien wrote:
> JDP choose M3 because it was a very good language for the job -- C and
> C++ isn't. We've gone too far in our snooty opinion that if it ain't
> C/C++ it is crap. Modula-3, Ada, and Eiffel are very fine application
> languages, and CVSup is an _application_.
I'm confused. Once these applications are in binary form, what
difference does it make what language they were written in? Is cvsup
not available as a binary-only package that can be installed? Are
you required to build it from source, which is why you have to
install ezm3 as well?
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