Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 22:39:28 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>, Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>, Anatoly Vorobey <mellon@pobox.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Salon article on BSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000518223638.95256K-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <200005182032.NAA21198@usr08.primenet.com>
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On Thu, 18 May 2000, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > Well, whatever suits him -- and linux has improved phenomenally in the > > > > last 3 years, ie since its 1.2 days, so he must be doing something > > > > right. One can't say what *would* have happened if he'd done things > > > > differently. > > > > > > If he had adopted a constraining tool like CVS, Linux would have > > > forked on no less than 3 (mathematically) documentable occasions. > > > > What do you mean by "constraining"? > > It constrains you to a single line of developement. For example, > if FreeBSD wanted to work on a PPC port, there is a single line of > developement called "current". The work could not occur in the > "current" source tree, since it would be unacceptable to those > who hold the keys, who are people not using PPCs, by definition. > Like the Alpha port, it would have to occur in a vacuum, when the > current tree was relatively quiescent, and be followed by the risk > of non-apporval, and the requirement of a heroic integration > effort (such as we saw on the part of the Alpha team). > Actually, I think there have through time been some special branches like say for CAM? > > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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