Time for a little Object-Oriented refactoring? [was Re: Automatic homepage for sourceforge, googlecode, etc.]

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Sat Aug 22 14:18:13 PDT 2009


On Aug 22, 2009, at 16:15, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:

> On Aug 22, 2009, at 5:12 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> We have thousands of ports already. It's a little late to change  
>> the language now, I think.
>
> Likely, a few sed scripts or a tcl script to rewrite the Portfiles  
> could do it all for us.

Portfiles can, and many do, contain Tcl code -- program logic,  
procedures, etc. These would all have to be manually rewritten in  
whatever language we propose as a replacement.




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