On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 10:01:50PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > On Tue, 31 Dec 2019 15:57:47 -0600 > Eric Zylstra <ezyls...@mac.com> wrote: > > > Proposing such a huge project without the ability to do it? I may > > have been a little disrespectful, but not the first one in the > > thread. And my point wasn’t to be disrespectful, but to point out > > that most proposals unaccompanied by code and that don’t solve > > obvious problems don’t seem to be received very well. Apologies if > > that wasn’t within bounds. > > What if the OP had instead of the suggestion submitted two or three Lua > scripts to replace two or three Perl scripts? Would you still have the > same opinion?
Good luck with that. Tools in base written in perl: - libtool - pkg-config - pkg_add The libtool part is insane. pkg-config is doable. You won't be able to rewrite pkg_add without rewriting the whole ecosystem, because it's heavily based on a few choice modules (see OpenBSD::Intro(3) ) and you more or less have to rewrite all of it together, meaning: -> pkg_add, create, delete -> fw_update -> dpb -> update-plist -> check-lib-depends -> pkg_check-* -> pkg_outdated -> pkg_subst -> port-resolve-lib-helper -> proot -> register-plist There are a few other scripts which are independent of that framework, but still that's some complicated job. Instead of rewriting it, I would be way more interested in somebody looking carefully at (say) libtool and fixing the missing parts...
