From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Sep 6 14:20:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wrs.com (unknown-1-11.windriver.com [147.11.1.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DDC937B412; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 14:20:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@[147.11.46.201]) by mail.wrs.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA06062; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 14:20:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20010906135259.C18784@xor.obsecurity.org> Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 14:20:15 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: libh src/ import Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org, alex@big.endian.de, jlemon@flugsvamp.com, Jordan Hubbard Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 06-Sep-01 Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 11:41:51PM -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote: >> What's wrong with src/release? src/contrib is generally for "3rd party" >> software such as gdb or tcpdump. libh was developed entirely within the >> FreeBSD project and is only really applicable to release management. > > Perhaps I don't know enough about what libh does (I thought it was a > GUI library), but is it really beyond the realms of possibility that > someone might want to use this for another purpose than the installer? A nice interface for binary updating when it comes. Imagine a window'ed/ graphical mergemaster. :) You write a simple Tcl script and libh does the rest. It's a general purpose tool that happens to be very useful for the new installer. > Kris -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message