Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 02:34:13 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Mike Heffner <mheffner@vt.edu> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>, Luke Mewburn <lukem@wasabisystems.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD-specific sources (was: Importing lukemftpd) Message-ID: <20010719023412.A30128@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20010718235039.mheffner@novacoxmail.com>; from mheffner@novacoxmail.com on Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 11:50:39PM -0400 References: <20010718172357.Q69861@wantadilla.lemis.com> <XFMail.20010718235039.mheffner@novacoxmail.com>
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--YiEDa0DAkWCtVeE4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 11:50:39PM -0400, Mike Heffner wrote: >=20 > On 18-Jul-2001 Greg Lehey wrote: > |=20 > | Well, interestingly enough, Luke and I were talking about cooperation > | between the NetBSD and FreeBSD projects just over last weekend, and > | one of the things that we decided was that it would be desirable to > | add a new category of software to our source trees, software that is > | used by all BSDs (well, within our terms of reference, NetBSD and > | FreeBSD anyway). We didn't specifically mention his ftpd: we were > | thinking more of things like USB support. The idea would be that we > | might have a separate part of the source tree, like /usr/src//contrib, > | which is maintained either by a group of people, or (preferably) one > | person who ensures that it runs on all BSD platforms. The latter > | might be difficult to implement, especially for kernel code, and even > | for userland code there would be challenges. I've got a whole lot > | more to say on the matter, but I'm sure that people will find a number > | of weaknesses in my suggestions. Feel free to pick holes in the idea. >=20 >=20 > Yes, I think this would be a great idea, specifically for new code. Howev= er, I > have doubts on how succesfull successfulit would be for current code, > especially that which has diverged significantly between the branches. Step 1: Synchronise the code Step 2: Stay in sync :-) Kris --YiEDa0DAkWCtVeE4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7VqmUWry0BWjoQKURAlimAKCidbhHPPw3mzUwe1CM5XQSvq1YKQCgrJv/ 0PRlAKAEi9U5p8IA4uxzcPQ= =v4l3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --YiEDa0DAkWCtVeE4-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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