Limitations of Ports System

[Aryeh M. Friedman]

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Mark Linimon wrote:
>> Side note the more we discuss this the more obvious it becomes to me
>> it has to be in some OO lang and since C++ is the only one in the base
>> system it kind of forces C++ to be the implementation lang.
>
> You may want to take a look at some of the work OpenBSD has done
> recently; I believe they are working towards treating ports as
> first-class objects.
Actually that is one of the key reasons for C++ vs. C is if we treat a
port as a first class object it becomes pretty trivial to manipulate
it in a DAG without having to worry about any nasty details until we
build it.

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Aryeh M. Friedman
FloSoft Systems
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