From owner-freebsd-arch Thu May 24 18: 6:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n37.san.rr.com (dt051n37.san.rr.com [204.210.32.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A4FC37B422 for ; Thu, 24 May 2001 18:06:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@DougBarton.net) Received: from DougBarton.net (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n37.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA18971; Thu, 24 May 2001 18:06:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@DougBarton.net) Message-ID: <3B0DB020.885F5ED0@DougBarton.net> Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 18:06:40 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: contrib code and gnu build glue (was [CFR] /sys/miscfs/* -> /sys/fs/) References: <55383.990687667@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > On Wed, 23 May 2001 13:46:50 MST, Doug Barton wrote: > I've always thought that putting code in one place and build glue in another > is clever. It allows us to provide the code as close as supplied as > possible. > > You don't actually say what you have against the scheme. Care to > elaborate? I wish the whole thing were cleaner. There is too much "a little bit of this," and "a little bit of that" in the status quo. What'd really be nice for the current arrangement is if src/gnu had all of the 3rd party GPV'ed code, and src/contrib had all of the other 3rd party code except the bits related to encryption, which should still go in src/secure to help the people living under oppressive regimes. Then ALL of the build glue should go in its respective home under src/whatever. However, the work spent on that would be better spent on making the system more modular to start with, and that's a bikeshed of a different color. -- I need someone really bad. Are you really bad? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message