On 30 August 2010 09:27, Anonymous <swel...@gmail.com> wrote: > We can as well use Lua tables to store package database. Their syntax is > close to JSON. > > Besides, I think it's better to divorce ports from base so that pkg_* > tools can evolve faster and are not limited to dependencies from base. > The only thing we'd need to leave in base is smth like pkg_bootstrap. > IMO, this chicken and egg problem is getting quite annoying.
Speaking of Lua, I had a thread on this in -current which went IMO fairly well, mostly because Lua is a clean and easy language to import compared to, e.g. Perl, TCL or Python. As I see it, there will not be heavy opposition if Lua is to be imported. In short, if there is going to be a scripting language for pkg_*, Lua is sort-of "pre-approved" - as opposed to ksh and others mentioned here. _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
