Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2002 02:36:38 +0200 From: Jan Lentfer <Jan.Lentfer@web.de> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, freebsd-alpha <freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: List of ports that can be compiled with compaq-cc Message-ID: <3D224716.901@web.de> References: <3D21F1C8.2010708@web.de> <15650.6127.427432.57976@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <3D22188C.2000603@web.de> <3D222E25.62D5E4D0@mindspring.com> <3D222EF3.8070700@web.de> <3D223E91.A71CC743@mindspring.com>
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Terry Lambert schrieb: [...] Read and agreed > > >You appear to want a lot of people to install the Compaq tools >on a minority platform, and spend a lot of effort verifying >ports on your behalf, just so they can tag this fact in a >comment in the "README" or Makefile for a port, and obtain no >benefit from the effort, other than the tiny number of people >who read these files before executing "make" on them, in order >to build a given port. > > Hmm, well I didn't really give that a deep thought yet. It was an *idea*. I just thought that there are certain ports that could benefit from being compiled with the ccc. I did not have any idea about how to integrate that into FreeBSD, because maybe I know too little about the interiors of FreeBSD and the ports system. As said, it was an idea, not more. But on the other hand I had to read the Makfile of openssh-portable, too to find out make -DOPENSSH_OVERWRITE_BASE actually does what I want, nobody on security said it was bad to read the Makefile (a lot there seem to expect you to) >With respect, the single most important thing that makes effort >happen with regard to Open Source is working code. I've proven >this over and over again. FreeBSD is around because 386BSD code >*worked*, thanks to my efforts with the patchkit. OpenLDAP is >around because of the patches that I both collected into a single >whole, and made on my own, as an experiment to prove this thesis; >on its own, the University of Michigan LDAP code needed to *work* >before it gained wide acceptance. Eric Raymond can take his >"The Cathedral and the Bazaar" voo-doo and stuff them. I have >mathematical models. I can *prove* my thesis over 9 Open Source >Software projects in which I have participated directly, and over >another half a dozen which I've analyzed. > > I think I did not say a single word against open source or that in first place code should work, did I? You are making a lot more out of it than I ever wanted. The thing is, there is code (like biology/emboss) that can be very easily compiled with the ccc and you gain a lot of advantage - that's all in my eyes. The way this *knowledge* is spread - I don't really care. If there is a way to automize it within FreeBSD/Alpha - superb - I didn't know but I am willing to learn and I am willing to contribute. If the *way to go* in FreeBSD is different, I will follow the FreeBSD-way. >If you want something that's going to result in ports available >for you, which can be compiled out-of-the-box with the Compaq >compiler, the only approach that's going to work consistantly >is going to be the approach I've described. The approach that >you described will not result in what you say you want to have >happen. The emergent properties of your approach is a significant >division of effort. > I didn't say I expected out-of-the-box ccc-ports! I had an simple idea, and you it seems, have bad manners: I am pretty new to FreeBSD and especially Alpha (2 days now). Sorry for trying to bring in ideas. You could have told and explained *the way to go* with out trying to be a principal. >If you don't care about what happens, and you just want a project, >then, by all means, declare one at Sourceforge, and have it get >nowhere, just like all other non-working projects proceed to >failure after declaration without working code. > > I never said that I don't care what happens, why the heck are you so hostile? I had an idea.... which is an idea and will stay an idea..... it wasn't written in stone nor want I to overthrow world order (nor freebsd order) nor anything, it was meant as initiation - not as an thought-through-all-the-way-fnished-concept. Again, sorry if I am not very firm with hows-and-whos of FreeBSD, but please be a little more easy on me..... Jan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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