From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jul 16 11:42:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6422737B401 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 11:42:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jkh-gw.queasyweasel.com (adsl-64-173-3-158.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net [64.173.3.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C39D043E3B for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 11:42:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@queasyweasel.com) Received: from mango.queasyweasel.com (jkh@mango.freebsd.com [64.173.15.99]) by jkh-gw.queasyweasel.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g6GIftux013090; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 11:41:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@queasyweasel.com) Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 11:42:35 -0700 Subject: Re: Package system flaws? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v535) Cc: jos@catnook.com, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav From: Jordan K Hubbard In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.535) 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 I think we're waiting for it to get to the stage where it does enough that it's not shot down for lack of functionality. It actually seems to be making very good progress as a side-project, so I haven't been tempted to rock the boat by encouraging its merger with the main CVS repo until its own developers feel it's ready for that. For one thing, it would make adding new developers to the libh project that much harder since they'd have to go through the more formal committer process. - Jordan On Tuesday, July 16, 2002, at 02:24 AM, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Jordan K Hubbard writes: >> If libh ever makes it off the ground, you can bet that Tcl will enter >> the base system fairly rapidly since it will be required for >> everything from bootstrapping packages onto the system to actually >> installing the system itself. > > I'm not a big fan of having Tcl in the base system, but - what are we > waiting for? libh should have entered the tree a long time ago, > there's absolutely nothing to be gained from leaving it out in the > cold. > > DES > -- > Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org > -- Jordan K. Hubbard Engineering Manager, BSD technology group Apple Computer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message