From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Jun 13 12:54: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.noos.fr (aragon.noos.net [212.198.2.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B2FC37B437 for ; Thu, 13 Jun 2002 12:53:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 70472509 invoked by uid 0); 13 Jun 2002 19:53:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gits.gits.dyndns.org) ([212.198.230.194]) (envelope-sender ) by 212.198.2.75 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 13 Jun 2002 19:53:52 -0000 Received: from gits.gits.dyndns.org (bcwgwstfuhl6frco@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gits.gits.dyndns.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g5DJrpa6046633; Thu, 13 Jun 2002 21:53:51 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from root@gits.dyndns.org) Received: (from root@localhost) by gits.gits.dyndns.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g5DJrpkT046632; Thu, 13 Jun 2002 21:53:51 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from root) Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 21:53:50 +0200 From: Cyrille Lefevre To: Robert Watson Cc: Doug Barton , "Jacques A. Vidrine" , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: RFC: remove xten from the base system? Message-ID: <20020613195350.GB46292@gits.dyndns.org> Mail-Followup-To: Cyrille Lefevre , Robert Watson , Doug Barton , "Jacques A. Vidrine" , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org References: <20020612234305.W2539-100000@master.gorean.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Organization: ACME X-Face: V|+c;4!|B?E%BE^{E6);aI.[< List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 03:09:05AM -0400, Robert Watson wrote: > > On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Doug Barton wrote: > > > 1. Some people actually use it. > > 2. The code has kernel bits (thus it's hard to port, not sure how true > > this is). > > 3. It's easier to keep in synch if it's in the tree, since people will see > > it get broken. > > The model used for Coda is to store the kernel module in the base tree, > but keep the userland stuff in a port. This allows the kernel module to > track changes in the base system kernel closely, removing that maintenance > issue and keeping it in synch, but doesn't keep the stuff in the base > system that doesn't really fit well. xten kernel sources are only 40 KB and xten utility (w/o s) is only 32 KB while coda and such projects take far more space than this small one. does this really need a full thread about so few bytes ? Cyrille. -- Cyrille Lefevre mailto:cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message