From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 27 10:41:28 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id KAA01864 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 27 Feb 1995 10:41:28 -0800 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id KAA01856 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 1995 10:41:26 -0800 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA02559; Mon, 27 Feb 95 11:33:36 MST From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9502271833.AA02559@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: Binary compatibility with NetBSD To: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Mon, 27 Feb 95 11:33:35 MST Cc: jbeukema@hk.super.net, ernie@tinny.eis.net.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <8312.793837347@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Feb 26, 95 02:22:27 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > If you think it's a difficult task, I can set aside next Saturday to > > start to replace FreeBSD's libc with NetBSD's. > > Excellent. Pencil it in then. And don't forget that any changes which > break backwards compatability with our OWN users will not be popular, > of course. If you can make this a process of evolution and not > destruction then let's see it, by all means! No, my view of this would be that it is a strictly "OEM" arrangement. NetBSD would do whatever they wanted to their libraries, and FreeBSD would just import them blindly. If you wanted to make changes to the library, you'd submit them to the NetBSD sources only. In other words, one library repository. What do you anticipate this breaking? Some people have suggested that there are internationalization and other problems... perhaps I should work on getting the NetBSD libraries up to FreeBSD's level in these areas instead, then only after that is done just blindly import them, per the original plan? If you could give me a detailed list of what you don't like about the NetBSD libraries (other than their origin) and what you think would be broken so that I can ensure compatability, I think everyone could be made happy. Still interested, or is it still a control issue, where you feel that people wanting to make library changes will not want to make them to the NetBSD sources, only the FreeBSD sources? > > I'll probably need a thud account and some disk space. > > No problem. It shall be arranged. Send me a passwd line. You can either use my info off of freefall, or if you need MD5, we will have to come to some other arrangement. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.