Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 14:20:15 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org, alex@big.endian.de, jlemon@flugsvamp.com, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: libh src/ import Message-ID: <XFMail.010906142015.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20010906135259.C18784@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On 06-Sep-01 Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 11:41:51PM -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote: >> What's wrong with src/release? src/contrib is generally for "3rd party" >> software such as gdb or tcpdump. libh was developed entirely within the >> FreeBSD project and is only really applicable to release management. > > Perhaps I don't know enough about what libh does (I thought it was a > GUI library), but is it really beyond the realms of possibility that > someone might want to use this for another purpose than the installer? A nice interface for binary updating when it comes. Imagine a window'ed/ graphical mergemaster. :) You write a simple Tcl script and libh does the rest. It's a general purpose tool that happens to be very useful for the new installer. > Kris -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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