Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 14:16:23 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@trout.sri.MT.net> To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert), davidg@Root.COM Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Binary compatibility with NetBSDk Message-ID: <199502282116.OAA10502@trout.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) "Re: Binary compatibility with NetBSDk" (Feb 28, 9:21am)
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> > The _only_ solution to the problem is to incorporate whatever > > improvements are worth incorporating from the foreign libcs (be > > them NetBSD, BSDI, SysV, or whatever) and (for binary compatibility) > > provide a mechanism for segregating the foreign system's shared > > libraries. > Both camps had no problem turning X developement over to a single > entity. Hell, much of the Novell X developement is owed to the > XFree86 project. How is this any different? 1) We never turned something over. The X development has always been in the hands of the XFree86 team. 2) X is *not* a critical part of the OS. Granted, it's pretty standard, but if X breaks you are not left alone in the wilderness with nowhere to turn. (As new cards are released, many folks are running FreeBSD w/out X). 3) The XFree86 folks have not shown any particular partitionship to any one OS, or have any hidden or public agendas that conflict with the FreBSD project. This doesn't imply that NetBSD does, but there goals are at times in conflict with the FreeBSD goals. 4) The XFree86 are willing to let FreeBSD developers have access to the code trees at all stages of the game. Note, it is possible to look at NetBSD-current, but this is far from the best solution. Should I keep going? The reason FreeBSD and NetBSD both exist is because neither groups agrees wholly with the goals and directions of the other groups. This means that there will be two differing versions, whether you like it or not. Minimizing that is a worthy goal, but if it means hobbling one group then it's not worth it. Nate
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