From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Sep 6 15:31: 1 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 EFB2037B407 for ; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 15:30:44 -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 PAA18191; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 15:30:41 -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: Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 15:30:38 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: Garance A Drosihn Subject: RE: libh src/ import Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org, Alexander Langer 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 Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 12:05 PM -0700 9/6/01, John Baldwin wrote: >>On 06-Sep-01 Alexander Langer wrote: >>> Hi! >>> >>> How are peoples feelings about an import of libh into our src tree, >>> in order to push the development? >> >>As I said on IRC in an opinion that no one else seems to share, libh >>is useful in a wider regard than just FreeBSD, and I think it should >>be a separate project that gets vendor imported into src/contrib. > > I agree it should be somewhere better than src/release. > > I don't like the idea of a project that we have complete control > over would end up in src/contrib, however. I understand that it > could have a wider audience than just FreeBSD, but src/contrib > is supposed to be for those things that we "keep our hands off of, > unless we really really have to change something, and even then we > have to get the maintainer's explicit permission and a 2/3 majority > of the house of representatives (and every country's equivalent) > before we make a change". You are making an erroneous assumption that all libh developers are FreeBSD developers. At least one libh committer is _not_ a FreeBSD committer. GUI's and OS's are two different things and draw from different developer communities (albeit communities that intersect at points). A similar idea would be if we decided to write our own C compiler and make it part of the FreeBSD project instead of being its own project. Or our own graphical system that is a replacement for X. -- 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