From owner-freebsd-small Thu May 11 14:45:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from mimer.webgiro.com (mimer.webgiro.com [212.209.29.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CDAA37B59F for ; Thu, 11 May 2000 14:45:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abial@webgiro.com) Received: by mimer.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 66) id E59C52DC0A; Thu, 11 May 2000 23:48:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mx.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 371557817; Thu, 11 May 2000 23:40:57 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx.webgiro.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34ECB10E17; Thu, 11 May 2000 23:40:57 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 23:40:57 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki To: "Jeffrey S. Sharp" Cc: freebsd-small Subject: Re: Progress on TinyBSD make-based build In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 11 May 2000, Jeffrey S. Sharp wrote: > It's taken me a little longer than I expected, but I have finished a beta > version of the TinyBSD Development Kit, complete with all the original > features that I wanted to put in. I haven't looked into the features that > people have suggested, but I plan to at some point. Once I write some > documentation, I will make a release it somewhere for cheers and jeers > (hopefully more of the former :). Where can I download the code? > It's not really a huge deal; it's pretty much just a Makefile, a script, a > directory tree, and some sample conf files. The Makefile is softlinked > throughout the directory tree and serves as the user interface to the > build system. The script, named 'config', takes conf files and generates > a set of makefiles that do the actual work of building a distribution. > > Like I predicted, I did not have ample time to worry about extraneous > testing for error conditions. Thus, it is incredibly easy to screw > something up and get no more feedback than a failed make. More work needs > to be done in that area. > > Also, I'm not quite up the super-guru level that a lot of you are. Making > this thing go has been very educational for me, but I'm sure there are a > few boneheaded things still left in there as a result of my > non-guru-ness. A second result is that I'm not really sure what the best > method of release is. What should I do? Put a tarball up on a web site > somewhere? Start a CVS server (overkill?)? Try to set up a project at sourceforge.net? Andrzej Bialecki // WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) // ------------------------------------------------------------------- // ------ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org -------- // --- Small & Embedded FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message