From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jan 19 19: 4:30 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F73737B405 for ; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 19:04:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from out001.verizon.net (out001pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F43443F3F for ; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 19:04:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dacut@kanga.org) Received: from kanga.org ([151.201.19.185]) by out001.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.20 201-253-122-126-120-20021101) with ESMTP id <20030120030421.KQYF23484.out001.verizon.net@kanga.org> for ; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 21:04:21 -0600 Message-ID: <3E2B6753.7020007@kanga.org> Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 22:04:51 -0500 From: David Cuthbert Organization: Kanga International User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212 X-Accept-Language: en-gb, en-au, en-nz, en-us, en- MIME-Version: 1.0 To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GCC as a selling point for FreeBSD? (Not!) References: <4.3.2.7.2.20030119130825.00b21ee0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030119123751.00d4cc00@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030119123751.00d4cc00@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030119130825.00b21ee0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030119133833.00e422f0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20030119133833.00e422f0@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH PLAIN at out001.verizon.net from [151.201.19.185] at Sun, 19 Jan 2003 21:04:19 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brett Glass wrote: > Again, the most important patches to apply are to the project. > FreeBSD should make it a fundamental goal and a high priority > to remove all GPLed code from the base system as installed. Hm. This is a bit dangerous, in the "throwing the baby out with the bathwater" sense. While I'm all for having a BSD'ed compiler (one which I can ship without worries as to legal/licensing implications), FreeBSD should not compromise quality for the sake of purity. Heck, I'd have no problem with being required to use some weird, bootstrapped version of ICC or MSVC (!) to compile BSD if the difference in quality was that significant of an issue. This kind of thing should probably be an orthogonal project, with "ability to compile FreeBSD" a fundamental milestone of the compiler and "ability to use BSDcc" at most a roadmap-ish goal. That said, if such a project were started, I would be keen to lend a hand. I'm still reviewing the TenDra and Princeton work, though. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message