From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 29 20:50: 4 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9794A37B401; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 20:50:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C786A43F43; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 20:50:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.6/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h0U4o1Ix008691; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 20:50:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0U4mkXW008662; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 20:48:46 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 20:48:46 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Juli Mallett Cc: Marcel Moolenaar , current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Patch to teach config(8) about "platforms". Message-ID: <20030130044846.GB5754@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: current@FreeBSD.org Mail-Followup-To: David O'Brien , Juli Mallett , Marcel Moolenaar , current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20030129013537.GB1016@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <20030128174259.A10304@FreeBSD.org> <20030129021406.GD1016@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <20030128182013.A13422@FreeBSD.org> <20030129025124.GG1016@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <20030128190158.A15778@FreeBSD.org> <20030129044548.GI1016@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <20030128205737.A22274@FreeBSD.org> <20030129051853.GJ1016@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <20030128213716.A24203@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030128213716.A24203@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 09:37:16PM -0800, Juli Mallett wrote: > I've made a note that you don't think my way is optimal. I do, and > that's that, at this point. No black magic, no convoluted config > files, etc. Go deal with the ODE config and Mach's configuration > files, I have. Or NetBSD's. Or OpenBSD's. At this point, I am > convinced that the platform keyword is the least offensive and most > productive way of doing all of this, and so on, being someone who > has worked with more backwards methods, and being the person who > had to deal with this first, and came up with something that suits > the two groups who need it most (the pc98 mistake is probably near > impossible to correct, due to the historical nature), MIPS, and > PowerPC. Juli, you need to convince many more than just yourself that this is a good approach for something that is so over-reaching and will be something we *all* have to live with. Right now you don't have much of a buy-in for this, and we haven't even seen public support for it from Peter "(the config(8) maintainer)". Possibly you have a very eloquent design, and that once something is implemented using it the rest of us will have our light bulbs turned on. Maybe this is something that should remain in a Perforce tree until that time. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message