From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 19 20: 5: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 037CA15661 for ; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 20:05:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: from current1.whistle.com (current1.whistle.com [207.76.205.22]) by alpo.whistle.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id TAA15851; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 19:59:04 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 19:59:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Tomoaki NISHIYAMA Cc: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, y-nakaga@nwsl.mesh.ad.jp, imp@harmony.village.org, peter@netplex.com.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP!!!! Important instructions for -current users! In-Reply-To: <19990419183445N.tomoaki@moss.nibb.ac.jp> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG from my understanding, the biggest difference is that New-bus is being designed to eventually delegate 'config' to a very minor role where newconfig (as it's name suggests' maintains 'config' a s a major component.. It has been a long standing goal of FreeBSD to make the system as dynamic as possible. My personal goal is to see it more dynamically configurable than NT with all it's DLLs. julian On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Tomoaki NISHIYAMA wrote: > jkh> > I don't go to new-bus, this direction is disunion of BSDs. It is > jkh> > bad decision. > jkh> > jkh> I'm sorry that you feel this way, but I can only re-state that better > jkh> communication could have prevented this in the first place and hope > jkh> that you've learned your own lessons from this exercise. If you > jkh> haven't, then a good opportunity for learning has simply been wasted. > > One problem on the decision is that it was not based > on a judge that new-bus is technically or philosophically > superior to newconfig framework but you stated > jkh> the difference with new-bus being > jkh> that we were working just that much more closely with Doug Rabson (and > jkh> the others helping him) and had already used the new-bus stuff for > jkh> FreeBSD/alpha. > > Nakagawa would not be so upset if you could convince him > that new-bus were superior. > > -------- > Tomoaki Nishiyama > e-mail:tomoaki@biol.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp > Department of Biological Sciences, > Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message