Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 21:59:15 +1000 From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> To: "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> Cc: Hackers FreeBSD <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: general Darwin imports (was Re: Darwin cmd import?) Message-ID: <20040605115915.GA1149@k7.mavetju> In-Reply-To: <20040602135757.GC89452@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> References: <00ce01c44458$8a28d880$7890a8c0@dyndns.org> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040529194548.74482Z-100000@fledge.watson.org> <20040602135757.GC89452@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org>
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On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 09:57:57AM -0400, Michael W. Lucas wrote: > People may gripe about Apple not returning stuff to the open source > community. The truth is, they have. They aren't responsible for > converting what they return into a format we can use, but they haven't > deliberately obfuscated their code. Sorting out the diffs would be a > pain, but not horribly difficult. > > According to Jordan Hubbard, the best source of low-hanging fruit is > their modified libc. They've had people work out all sorts of bugs, > clean up functions, performance improvements, etc. Libc changes > require extensive testing. They also have wide-reaching benefits. > It's still BSDL'd, so we can take back whatever we want. Now the question of course is: where can I find it? It is somewhere in a CVS repository (that would be nicest), or are it raw sourcefiles only? Edwin, now owning a Mac so not really familiar with things -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.mavetju.org edwin@mavetju.org | Weblog: http://weblog.barnet.com.au/edwin/
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