From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 7 14:25:03 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 C5E3316A57E for ; Wed, 7 Jul 2004 14:25:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from kanga.honeypot.net (kanga.honeypot.net [208.162.254.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8055043D45 for ; Wed, 7 Jul 2004 14:25:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kanga.honeypot.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05448BA56 for ; Wed, 7 Jul 2004 09:25:03 -0500 (CDT) Received: from kanga.honeypot.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (kanga.honeypot.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 77877-03 for ; Wed, 7 Jul 2004 09:25:02 -0500 (CDT) Received: from janus.daycos.com (outbound.daycos.com [204.26.70.70]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by kanga.honeypot.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 476AABA2E for ; Wed, 7 Jul 2004 09:25:02 -0500 (CDT) From: Kirk Strauser To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 09:24:58 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <200407070825.18046.kirk@strauser.com> <20040707135753.GA38754@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20040707135753.GA38754@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_6eA7ATP7iGcHgPQ"; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200407070924.58708.kirk@strauser.com> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at honeypot.net 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 14:25:03 -0000 --Boundary-02=_6eA7ATP7iGcHgPQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 2004-07-07 08:57 am, Steve Kargl wrote: > This is a red herring. This is the FreeBSD project. Other projects and > OSes can do their own work. I really don't understand this logic. There is nothing FreeBSD-specific=20 about CVSup from what I can see - it's a generic tool to synchronize data=20 from a remote CVS tree. We don't have BSDftp or BSDhttp, but we seem happy= =20 to have BSDcvs. > They can then contribute their work back to the EZM3 maintainer to provide > the portability you crave. =20 Noone else is interested in our tool, no matter how great it is, because=20 it's a pain in the neck to use if you're not already using FreeBSD. That=20 means that we have to bear the entire onus of maintaining it, developing=20 it, and porting its language to new release / hardware combinations. Is=20 there a queue of people eagerly awaiting the chance to carry ezm3 forward,= =20 or is it a chore that someone gets saddled with because they want to use=20 the only commonly used program that's written in it? > 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? People are still buying IA64 systems (for reasons beyond me). Noone beside= s=20 the few people qualified to work on cvsup is using ezm3 that I'm aware of. =2D-=20 Kirk Strauser --Boundary-02=_6eA7ATP7iGcHgPQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQBA7Ae65sRg+Y0CpvERAtcwAKCPFMFa63W5EXsHCHWv28dglXVZhQCfUeH9 aU8T2LOyBwwrcZZZpTXR/QU= =RS1/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_6eA7ATP7iGcHgPQ--