From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 1 12:08:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA26246 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 12:08:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA26239 for ; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 12:08:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA05171; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 13:05:03 -0700 (MST) Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 13:05:03 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199704012005.NAA05171@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Terry Lambert Cc: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams), proff@suburbia.net, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Internal clock In-Reply-To: <199704011946.MAA11874@phaeton.artisoft.com> References: <199704011920.MAA04841@rocky.mt.sri.com> <199704011946.MAA11874@phaeton.artisoft.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.22 under 19.14 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Terry Lambert writes: > > > The sad reality is if these things are not incorporated in -current > > > then they fall by as the original authors move onto other projects. > > > > Then adding the code into the tree is a 'bad thing', since it becomes > > unsupported. If no-one is willing to incorporate/support the code, then > > it shouldn't be incorporated. > > Better that it be lost forever? Yes. > Code shouldn't need a hell of a lot of maintenance, if the interfaces > for plugging the code in are fairly static and well enough designed > that they can remain that way. Yeah, right. If that were the case, you and I wouldn't be paid the big bucks to be software engineers, since any poor schmuck off the street could do our job. Nate