Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 20:48:46 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Patch to teach config(8) about "platforms". Message-ID: <20030130044846.GB5754@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20030128213716.A24203@FreeBSD.org> References: <20030129013537.GB1016@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <20030128174259.A10304@FreeBSD.org> <20030129021406.GD1016@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <20030128182013.A13422@FreeBSD.org> <20030129025124.GG1016@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <20030128190158.A15778@FreeBSD.org> <20030129044548.GI1016@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <20030128205737.A22274@FreeBSD.org> <20030129051853.GJ1016@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <20030128213716.A24203@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 09:37:16PM -0800, Juli Mallett wrote: > I've made a note that you don't think my way is optimal. I do, and > that's that, at this point. No black magic, no convoluted config > files, etc. Go deal with the ODE config and Mach's configuration > files, I have. Or NetBSD's. Or OpenBSD's. At this point, I am > convinced that the platform keyword is the least offensive and most > productive way of doing all of this, and so on, being someone who > has worked with more backwards methods, and being the person who > had to deal with this first, and came up with something that suits > the two groups who need it most (the pc98 mistake is probably near > impossible to correct, due to the historical nature), MIPS, and > PowerPC. Juli, you need to convince many more than just yourself that this is a good approach for something that is so over-reaching and will be something we *all* have to live with. Right now you don't have much of a buy-in for this, and we haven't even seen public support for it from Peter "(the config(8) maintainer)". Possibly you have a very eloquent design, and that once something is implemented using it the rest of us will have our light bulbs turned on. Maybe this is something that should remain in a Perforce tree until that time. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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