Date: Tue, 4 Apr 1995 23:38:29 -0600 From: nate@sneezy.sri.com (Nate Williams) To: rkw@dataplex.net (Richard Wackerbarth) Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com>, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: NOTICE: If you care, speak now! Message-ID: <199504050538.XAA09555@trout.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: <v02120b17aba7c9f340f2@[199.183.109.242]> References: <v02120b17aba7c9f340f2@[199.183.109.242]>
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Richard Wackerbarth writes:
> >If you're really serious about this, then before you commit *anything*
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >you need to bring it up on a machine completely and totally so that
> >others can run test builds with it and make comments. I'm sorry, but
> >until I actually *KNOW* and can *SEE* your changes doing everything
> >they're supposed to do on a real live box then I can't support them
> >and I doubt that many others will step forward and do so either.
> In order to implement this, I propose
> 1) By Thursday, I will distribute a proposed "standard" for the make files.
> 2) By Monday, we will agree to the standard.
> 3) I'll make changes to the .mk files to make them accept both the present
> Makefiles as well as those that conform to the new standard.
Before we agree to something, we need to *see* it in action. That means
we need to see a prototype before we can accept it as a standard. Then,
after a period of time which includes people beating on it and Jordan
agrees it's a 'Good thing' it will be agreed, and step 3 can occur.
No offense, but it's really easy to find a solution that doesn't 'quite'
work. The direction it heads is better, but if it doesn't do everything
it needs to do it's not a complete solution.
Show it off on thud first, and then we can see the wonderfulness of your
solution. :-)
Nate
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