pkg_upgrade (was Re: pkg_add does not backtrack, does it?)

[youshi10 at u.washington.edu]

On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Mike Meyer wrote:

> In <20070209111314.GA84731 at lpthe.jussieu.fr>, Michel TALON <talon at lpthe.jussieu.fr> typed:
>> Funny that i have just announced a program, that i have called pkgupgrade
>> (by analogy with portupgrade, i was not aware of his other work), and whose
>> aim is precisely to do the things you want - i don't pretend it succeeds
>> perfectly, there may be bugs in it, but its aim is indeed to be a substitute to
>> portupgrade, with some differences.
>
> Cool.
>
>> On the downside, for some people it is written in python.
>
> Personally, I think that's cool, but it does means it won't go into
> the base system. Portupgrade would probably be in the base system if
> it were written in a language in the base system.
>
> 	<mike
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Would perl be close enough to count, or would it have to be C/C++?

-Garrett