From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 7 13:57:54 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FDCF16A4CE for ; Wed, 7 Jul 2004 13:57:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from troutmask.apl.washington.edu (troutmask.apl.washington.edu [128.208.78.105]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFB4B43D49 for ; Wed, 7 Jul 2004 13:57:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu) Received: from troutmask.apl.washington.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) i67DvrI6038877; Wed, 7 Jul 2004 06:57:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu) Received: (from sgk@localhost)i67DvrY6038876; Wed, 7 Jul 2004 06:57:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sgk) Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 06:57:53 -0700 From: Steve Kargl To: Kirk Strauser Message-ID: <20040707135753.GA38754@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <20040707070012.GC38356@dragon.nuxi.com> <200407070825.18046.kirk@strauser.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200407070825.18046.kirk@strauser.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rewrite cvsup & portupgrade in C X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 13:57:54 -0000 On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 08:25:17AM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: > On Wednesday 07 July 2004 03:23 am, Brad Knowles wrote: > > > I'm confused. Once these applications are in binary form, what > > difference does it make what language they were written in? > > You have to get it into binary first. EZM3 is not available on many > non-FreeBSD, non-Intel platforms. This is a red herring. This is the FreeBSD project. Other projects and OSes can do their own work. They can then contribute their work back to the EZM3 maintainer to provide the portability you crave. > I see that there is no cvsup binary package for ia64. Does M3 build on that > platform? Do you suppose that "csup" will when it's finished? How many active ia64 (and ppc) developers does the FreeBSD platform have? Well, there's Marcel. Would you rather he work on the kernel or ezm3? You've suggested the modulo-3 is a dead language, how would you categorize the ia64 architecture? -- Steve