From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 1 9:30:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from peewee.cdrom.com (simo-ppp.eccosys.com [199.100.7.96]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0135154EF for ; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 09:30:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@jkh-plip-peewee.cdrom.com) Received: from peewee (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by peewee.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA09218; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 09:30:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@jkh-plip-peewee.cdrom.com) To: "stan@osgroup.com" Cc: "hackers@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Kernel config script In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 30 May 1999 18:14:31 CDT." <01BEAAC8.445E89A0.stan@osgroup.com> Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 09:30:31 -0700 Message-ID: <9215.928254631@peewee> From: Jordan Hubbard Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > You don't want FreeBSD to have more users? Do you think it already has > enough users? How many users is enough? What is the goal of the FreeBSD > project? To be the test platform for new kernel ideas exclusively? Why > do you tolerate the presence of the X on the FreeBSD CD-ROMs then? I think this point was somewhat ill-made and should be taken more as Mike being grumpy than as any statement of official policy. :) > Making the script is like making more documentation. Is the current > FreeBSD documentation so plentiful that making more documentation would > harm somebody? Go ahead and do it. Like I said, this gets talked about a lot but only a few people have ever tried to actually do it. I've seen a few shell scripts in the past, but all were somewhat simplistic and also abandoned quickly, which is not what you want. If you get users to start using a new kernel configuration mechanism, it MUST be maintained on a regular basis (as new options are added) or you'll just lull them into a false sense of security and insulate them from new features and options which exist in the "classic" config files but are not yet in the configuration front-end tool. As others have also said, the real goal is to have truly generic kernels and dispense with config(8) forever. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message