From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 9 23:55:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FC2F37B401 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 23:55:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (storm.FreeBSD.org.uk [194.242.157.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8643B43E6A for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 23:55:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@grimreaper.grondar.org) Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (uucp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9A6t9W1053309; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 07:55:09 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark@grimreaper.grondar.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) with UUCP id g9A6t9Qd053308; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 07:55:09 +0100 (BST) Received: from grimreaper.grondar.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grimreaper.grondar.org (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g9A6rMhb010633; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 07:53:23 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark@grimreaper.grondar.org) Message-Id: <200210100653.g9A6rMhb010633@grimreaper.grondar.org> To: James Howard Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: src/games bikeshed time. References: In-Reply-To: ; from James Howard "Wed, 09 Oct 2002 21:58:25 EDT." Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 07:53:22 +0100 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > So if someone were willing to take over the lot and manage them as Ports, > how would anyone feel about this? > > FreeGrep uses the FreeBSD build style and is easily a Port. I could > Port-ify the entire directory in, say, two days. Anyone interested? I've got the port-ifying job 90% done, in the style of ports/net/freebsd-uucp. If you want to maintain it, I'd be delighted! Are you a committer? M > On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 09:41 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 04:27:15PM -0700, Eric Melville wrote: > >>> The current flare-up over src/games/wargames reminds me that we are > >>> carrying a bunch of Really Old Stuff in usr/games/. > >>> > >>> Yes folks, its that time of the year. > >>> > >>> I ask myself, "why are we wasting ``make world'' time and install > >>> bandwidth on 1970's-era games?". > >>> > >>> Some folks will answer "tradition". This argument holds little > >>> water. Programs come and go, and there is no firm reference or > >>> agreement > >>> as to what is "really traditional". This agument can be used to import > >>> emacs on the grounds that it is documented in the O'Reilly BSD 4.4 > >>> books. > >> > >> I'm all for moving them to the projects directory in cvs, that seemed > >> like > >> a good solution for sccs. > > > > Well, that's only useful if it's actually a project, i.e. if people > > plan to develop them. Since that hasn't happened for most of the > > games in /usr/games over the lifetime of FreeBSD it's not likely this > > is about to change. > > > > Kris > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message -- o Mark Murray \_ O.\_ Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message