From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 21 22:11:50 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 850331065673 for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:11:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alexbestms@uni-muenster.de) Received: from SECMAIL.UNI-MUENSTER.DE (SECMAIL.UNI-MUENSTER.DE [128.176.192.141]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 463268FC1A for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:11:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pw0-f54.google.com (mail-pw0-f54.google.com [209.85.160.54]) by SECMAIL.UNI-MUENSTER.DE (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32BBEBF404 for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:11:47 +0200 (CEST) Received: by pwj1 with SMTP id 1so673983pwj.13 for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:11:45 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.196.5 with SMTP id t5mr4225916wff.54.1277158305081; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:11:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.14.13 with HTTP; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:11:45 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:11:45 +0200 Message-ID: From: Alexander Best To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Subject: sharing code between the various *BSDs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:11:50 -0000 hi there, i can't remember where i read this the other day, but i found this to be a great idea. basically the idea was to have one code pool which all the *bsd flavours share and also to which every *bsd committer has access and can make changes. especially code in /bin, /sbin, usr/bin, /usr/sbin or /usr/share (probably other places too) would benefit from this a lot. right now most of the work that gets done in one of these places by lets say dragonfly won't make it into freebsd or netbsd for a long time. or what's even worse: sometimes people document problems or bugs which have already been fixed in some other *bsd. if somebody fixes the problem that's just wasted time because it's been done beforehand. would this be even possible or not at all? -- Alexander Best