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Date:      Wed, 19 Jun 1996 11:56:58 -0400
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org>, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: tcl -- what's going on here. 
Message-ID:  <9606191556.AA19493@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <22601.835171642@time.cdrom.com>
References:  <199606190523.XAA04861@rocky.sri.MT.net> <22601.835171642@time.cdrom.com>

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<<On Wed, 19 Jun 1996 01:07:22 -0700, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> said:

> Now I've also had the benefit of having Poul talk to me about this for
> a couple of days beforehand, so I know his intentions were purer than
> you suspect - I don't expect you to have the benefit of the additional
> context, so I'm trying to explain here.

It would have been nice if he had talked to me, too... and perhaps
about five or ten other people who he knew would probably have
opinions on the subject.

> future someday but have steadily tried to avoid.  We knew it was in
> our future because the prospect of re-bmaking every port we ever
> wanted to ugrade, now and in the future, has traditionally _sucked_
> and we've hated it from day one.

Speak for yourself.  I've never had any difficulty in writing a
Berkeley-style makefile.

-GAWollman

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