Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 11:41:45 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: pst@shockwave.com (Paul Traina) Cc: jkh@freefall.FreeBSD.org, CVS-commiters@freefall.FreeBSD.org, cvs-usrbin@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/ee - Imported sources Message-ID: <199508301841.LAA08987@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199508301446.HAA01927@precipice.shockwave.com> from "Paul Traina" at Aug 30, 95 07:46:42 am
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> > Whoa! > > I thought we were going to do source imports into src/external. > Does this mean that YOU are willing to support and own this piece of > software for the rest of your life? Double WHOA!! That is WIP for a white paper, that we should be working on :-), it has not been presented nor fully tested as a conceptial model. Peter has done some initial ``what if'' work and done the very simple cases, and is taking a look at the harder issue of how to do things like the libc part of bind. Your jumping the gun by _MONTHS_ on the concept of src/external. Jordan, others, just ignore this little tid bit from Paul, the right thing was done here with the import of ee as the mode of operation for FreeBSD's cvs tree as it stands today. I know I have become a bit of a gating issue on that little white paper, as Peter has expressed to me that he needs an outline to really get him rolling, and I just have not had the time to write such an outline. Perhaps you (Paul) would be willing to write an outline that we can pass around between us, I think you fully understand the model, and have plenty of cvs background to flush out the ``how to do initial vendor imports into src/external'' (working name only, don't get stuck on the name) and ``how to do upgrade imports''. Like I stated in my initial proposal to you and Peter, this will never be made to fly as a mode of operation for the FreeBSD project unless we write a paper fully describing the paradigm and a guide on how to work within the constraints of the paradigm. A cvs hackers guide for FreeBSD has been requested more times than I care to count. And if the cvs aware like yourself, Peter and me want to see things ``done write'' it is going to be up to us to provide it. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD
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