From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jul 6 17:24:53 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 A69CD37B401 for ; Sat, 6 Jul 2002 17:24:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B415343E54 for ; Sat, 6 Jul 2002 17:24:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g670OkN2110126; Sat, 6 Jul 2002 20:24:46 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <1025955773.881.29.camel@lobster.originative.co.uk> References: <1025862341.1573.40.camel@lobster.originative.co.uk> <20020705095258.GC775@starjuice.net> <1025864161.1573.45.camel@lobster.originative.co.uk> <3D261EA4.ABC3AEC@mindspring.com> <1025921146.881.16.camel@lobster.originative.co.uk> <1025955773.881.29.camel@lobster.originative.co.uk> Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2002 20:24:45 -0400 To: Paul Richards From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Removing perl in make world Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.3 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) 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 At 12:42 PM +0100 7/6/02, Paul Richards wrote: >On Sat, 2002-07-06 at 03:46, Garance A Drosihn wrote: >> At 3:05 AM +0100 7/6/02, Paul Richards wrote: >> >Let's start with a premise: No-one running current is using >> >it for anything other than developing FreeBSD. >> >> This is assumption is too limiting. > >It shouldn't be. You're trying to defend a position that >the project doesn't support. It is too limiting. I might be on current because I have my *own* work I am doing on current. You talk as if the only development on -current is things that "other developers have officially committed" to -current. The fact that I have not committed some work to -current does not give anyone the right to go hog-wild with an 'rm' hanging off a blind 'find' command. It still boils down that you do not know why the files are there. I don't see why you're so determined to cause even more hassle for people trying to "do the right thing" and develop their changes on -current. >The -current branch is for FreeBSD developers, or volunteers >brave enough to test the -current branch. > >As such, don't be surprised if it wipes your hard disk clean. Don't be surprised if you have even fewer -current testers. Don't be surprised if we get to Novemeber of this year, and -current is just as unstable and untested as it was last year. Don't be surprised if we never manage to release -current, because it will never be sufficiently tested. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message