From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 21 22:13:45 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 B0F94106564A for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:13:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from utisoft@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f54.google.com (mail-bw0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B1E38FC18 for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:13:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz8 with SMTP id 8so1782076bwz.13 for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:13:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:received :reply-to:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc :content-type; bh=4g51diBJMNXRD/8Gf09zN+LkE2IKHk98KWPB56JqrvU=; b=wBJBsa+ojp/v2nGS6NbowspZdeQ27MHagSr5JebY0qG0vElFBYEV2BxzDpqu2gqKEi GRcOvSuCMzVG/X/NPzzlyUgHaQIAavDp5Cr1ByfcrtY0DIgfdo7GzNtxOgYz+iSUumIe y8vmPeezgKxzsg1CFfHG8Z72MyByfvtsbNom0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:reply-to:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:cc:content-type; b=Ik93/2xgo8CbsIX5xVW2MU6NfxXJNS/8v+9mRo5/EMLFdzmvRnjLXIk0MTfOhTQIq/ uEaCYcPvtlbAAe+L0kMC2j35riZ3t5h7KGuIC7TOAa3S159o+OWVuvlC0VwiCo6Fjm85 IAnZnd728HdCp+vy/rWWVMHO3dCd+VWIIpw60= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.8.5 with SMTP id f5mr3469048bkf.209.1277158424174; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:13:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.69.201 with HTTP; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:13:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.69.201 with HTTP; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:13:43 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 23:13:43 +0100 Message-ID: From: Chris Rees To: Alexander Best Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sharing code between the various *BSDs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: utisoft@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:13:45 -0000 Politics... Sorry for top-posting, Android won't let me quote. There's a bug report on it! On 21 Jun 2010 23:12, "Alexander Best" wrote: 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 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"