From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jun 19 11:41:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA08318 for current-outgoing; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 11:41:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grumble.grondar.za (root@grumble.grondar.za [196.7.18.130]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA08310; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 11:41:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grumble.grondar.za (mark@localhost.grondar.za [127.0.0.1]) by grumble.grondar.za (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA00804; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 20:37:55 +0200 (SAT) Message-Id: <199606191837.UAA00804@grumble.grondar.za> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Nate Williams , Poul-Henning Kamp , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tcl -- what's going on here. Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 20:37:54 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > > Unless you can say that NO-ONE is willing to do the bmake-munging > > process for them, then this is a moot point. Apparently Peter already > > did, and I don't see a burning need for doing groff. > > By now you've alraedy read my other responses so I'll not belabor the > point. Suffice it to say that I don't see an abundance or scarcity of > `bmakers' as the issue so much as I do the difficulty involved. I'd > hoped we could get off that treadmill. If it weren't difficult then > you wouldn't even have to say: How about meeting the problem half way? I see it sorta like this; folks are objecting to this large invariant file in the repository, and the alternative is being suggested as bmaking tcl. I say, why not _not_ bmake tcl, let it "all hang out" in its original format, except untarred and with patches applied, and let its own build do the work (modulo some makefile diffs (destdir etc)). diffs can easily be generated with 'cvs diff'. Further versions {c|sh}ould be imported on vendor branches. Same could apply to gcc, perl, etc... M -- Mark Murray 46 Harvey Rd, Claremont, Cape Town 7700, South Africa +27 21 61-3768 GMT+0200 Finger mark@grondar.za for PGP key