Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 08:57:59 -0400 From: "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> To: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>, "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre-lists@9online.fr>, Hackers FreeBSD <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: general Darwin imports (was Re: Darwin cmd import?) Message-ID: <20040605125759.GA17077@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> In-Reply-To: <20040605115915.GA1149@k7.mavetju> References: <00ce01c44458$8a28d880$7890a8c0@dyndns.org> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040529194548.74482Z-100000@fledge.watson.org> <20040602135757.GC89452@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> <20040605115915.GA1149@k7.mavetju>
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On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 09:59:15PM +1000, Edwin Groothuis wrote: > 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? The URL of the source was referenced earlier in this thread, IIRC. > Edwin, now owning a Mac so not really familiar with things Neither am I. You might check out the opendarwin.org web site and see what they have to say on the issue. I suspect if you asked on their mailing list and said you wanted to start bringing stuff back to FreeBSD, they'd be happy to give you all the pointers you need. ==ml -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org "I'm sorry, but 'Social Darwinism' is no excuse for killing all of your co-workers." -- Ivan Brunetti http://www.BlackHelicopters.org/~mwlucas/
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