From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jun 19 07:54:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA17867 for current-outgoing; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 07:54:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA17862; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 07:54:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA18527; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 10:54:15 -0400 Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 10:54:15 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9606191454.AA18527@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tcl -- what's going on here. In-Reply-To: <1867.835165278@critter.tfs.com> References: <199606190523.XAA04861@rocky.sri.MT.net> <1867.835165278@critter.tfs.com> Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < said: >> CVS does that for us. Having 'patches' doesn't buy us anything when >> it's a critical portion of the tree. > Sorry, but available history shows that this, true as it may be in > theory, doesn't work in practice. On the otherhand we get patches > from the ports collection integrated at the authors all the time. As someone who maintains the only parts of our `external' tree that were ever correctly imported in the first place, I can tell you from first-hand experience that it works damn well, thank you very much, if the importers can be bothered to do it right. I am not willing to declare defeat, and I don't want unreadable binary garbage in the SOURCE tree. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant