From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Dec 13 06:51:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA26687 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 13 Dec 1997 06:51:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA26664 for ; Sat, 13 Dec 1997 06:51:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with UUCP id PAA25326 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 13 Dec 1997 15:51:38 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.8/8.8.5) id PAA22275; Sat, 13 Dec 1997 15:43:33 +0100 (MET) Date: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 15:43:33 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199712131443.PAA22275@uriah.heep.sax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E References: <19971211013734.16942@micron.mini.net> <26106.881834408@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: <26106.881834408@time.cdrom.com> From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Subject: Re: Why so many steps to build new kernel? X-Original-Newsgroups: local.freebsd.hackers To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: [TurboVision] > ..., there's > just this big huge problem with it. It's in C++. I hate C++ and so > do just about all of the other installation hackers, so we have > something of an impasse in the interface group right now (heck, for > the last 8 months even). That's at least not true for me. I could live with C++ (or anything else that is learnable, be it C, C++, M3, Perl, Tcl), but i'm fearing there's too few space on the bootfloppy for such a monster. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)