Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 21:00:18 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: current@FreeBSD.org Cc: Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org>, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> Subject: Re: Patch to teach config(8) about "platforms". Message-ID: <3E38B162.3E20D8D9@mindspring.com> 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> <20030130044846.GB5754@dragon.nuxi.com>
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David O'Brien wrote: > 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)". I still think a PC98 conversion would be compelling. But in any case, isn't "the first person to a working PPC port" kind of an overriding argument, one way or the other? -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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