Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 21:05:23 -0400 From: Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon@widomaker.com> To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: time to step up to the SMP plate? Message-ID: <20010812210521.G13184@widomaker.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010808075358.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <20010807215153.B9801@widomaker.com> <XFMail.010808075358.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 07:53:58AM -0700, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 08-Aug-01 Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote: > >> Hopefully, Open Source will be able to overcome its inherit > >> handicaps; it may be that FreeBSD switches to using Perforce, or > >> some other tool that gets rid of the "One True Head Branch" > >> phenomenon, despite the commercial use pain that such a switch > >> would entail (P4 is free for Open Source, but not for commercial > >> companies tracking an Open Source project, whose repository is > >> only available in P4). > > > > I would worry about committing to a tool that may or may not remain free > > in the future. It would be better to come up with an open solution. > > Have you _used_ p4? :) Yes, what's your point? I still rather have an open solution. For one thing, I'd be able to build a version for whatever OS I had. Still, I'm glad to see them making so many available. If they just had a NetBSD-sparc version I'd be doing more than trivial toying with it (my CVS source server is on NetBSD-sparc). -- shannon@widomaker.com _________________________________________________ ______________________/ armchairrocketscientistgraffitiexistentialist "Castles are sacked in war, Chieftains are scattered far, Truth is a fixed star, Eileen aroon!" -- Gerald Griffin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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