On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 12:08:02AM +0000, Nuno Teixeira wrote: > Portupgrade is a powerfull tool and I'd like to make the > following question: > - why not integrate portupgrade with the main FreeBSD tree? > [..] > > I'm not a programmer to talk about Ruby or other language, but I'd like to know > if there is any solution like: > > - change Ruby to other language so that portupgrade can be integrated in >FreeBSD? Might be hard to do, or the auther might disagree. The same goes for cvsup, that is written in modula-3, an even more obscure language :P
Cvsup isn't in the base system either, just installing as port/package works fine too. Maybe sysinstall could suggest to install cvsup and/or portupgrade packages by default? > > - integrate Ruby with the main FreeBSD tree and then integrate portupgrade too? Ruby is GPL, I guess yet another GPL package won't be imported > > I see no problem at all to use portupgrade port, but I think that it is a > great funcionality to FreeBSD if portupgrade was part of it. Sure it is Just my 0.02 euro, Alson To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
