On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 05:06:44PM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 10:00:08AM +0100, Stijn Hoop wrote: > > > > Hope this helps to clear up some of the confusion. > > > > --Stijn > > Oh Mr Stijn. Listen, I am not tellimg you off, or making fun of you..Ok ? > I promise. But my eyes crossed, went sidewyas, took a holiday, crawled > across the floor looking for somewhere else to be.
What part did you not understand? I'll try and reword it for you.
Hopefully things can become clear then.
> Years and years ago I wrote a caculator program for DOS, using a
> recursive state-machine model and allowing infinite precision, kind of
> like "bc"..or is it "dc" ?
> Quite necessary at the time to deal with the Dutch Tax System.
What does that have to do with portupgrade?
If you're trying to convey the height of your programming skills, you've
succeeded -- I've never done the above, and probably never will. My interests
lie elsewhere. To each his own.
I am not making fun of you either -- portupgrades *can* go wrong in many
subtle ways. However I enjoy finding out what exactly went wrong, and try to
fix things in the process. Even better if I can find where portupgrade got
things wrong, so that I can report them to the author.
Note that I'm still a convinced portupgrade user. Kent's story led me to find
out why portupgrade did what it did, and it cautioned me to again look more
closely at what exactly happened after my portupgrade runs. And like I said, I
succesfully used portupgrade to survive X, mozilla and gnumeric upgrades.
That's why I'm still convinced that there's something on your system that
prevents you from portupgrading KDE. However you don't seem interested in
fixing this anymore; not my loss.
> Portupgrade has too many ways it can go wrong for mere mortals.
> I have offered to re-write it.
> It will be a mega-project, but my offer is serious.
That would be great. More alternatives is always better. Maybe you will also
encounter a lot of the difficulties of automatic dependencies and the like.
Maybe you can even make it part of the base system, or at least of the ports
system.
Regards,
--Stijn
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