From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 30 08:23:29 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 700DA1065676 for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 08:23:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from linimon@lonesome.com) Received: from mail.soaustin.net (pancho.soaustin.net [76.74.250.40]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50C4C8FC08 for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 08:23:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.soaustin.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id DDAB45615E; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 03:23:28 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 03:23:28 -0500 From: Mark Linimon To: Vadim Goncharov Message-ID: <20110830082328.GB8085@lonesome.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD problems and preliminary ways to solve X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 08:23:29 -0000 On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 10:20:40PM +0000, Vadim Goncharov wrote: > That's even more strange given that early years, pkg_* tools in NetBSD > (pkgsrc) and FreeBSD got active code exchange. Why has it stopped later?.. Although we do talk to each other e.g. at conferences, each of our projects is sufficiently occupied with current tasks. There are some things that they can do that we can't and vice versa. The codebase divergence is huge, and the target audience is different as well. (For instance, FreeBSD isn't worried about boostrapping on other OSes, as pkgsrc is. Attempting to deal with it is a huge task that would simply give us no benefit.) If you take a look at the codebases, you'll see how big the divergence is now. mcl