Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 09:24:58 -0500 From: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rewrite cvsup & portupgrade in C Message-ID: <200407070924.58708.kirk@strauser.com> In-Reply-To: <20040707135753.GA38754@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <E1Bhd1M-000KEo-Nz@smp500.sitetronics.com> <200407070825.18046.kirk@strauser.com> <20040707135753.GA38754@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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--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--
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