From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jan 19 22:14:48 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D71A537B405 for ; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 22:14:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B30D43F3F for ; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 22:14:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.4/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0K6EPiX013777; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 16:44:26 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) X-Authentication-Warning: cain.gsoft.com.au: Host localhost [127.0.0.1] claimed to be [127.0.0.1] Subject: Re: GCC as a selling point for FreeBSD? (Not!) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Brett Glass Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Miguel Mendez In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20030119213858.02af6b60@localhost> References: <20030119210418.03a9e3ab.flynn@energyhq.homeip.net> <4.3.2.7.2.20030119123751.00d4cc00@localhost> <20030119210418.03a9e3ab.flynn@energyhq.homeip.net> <4.3.2.7.2.20030119213858.02af6b60@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1043043263.401.79.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.0 Date: 20 Jan 2003 16:44:24 +1030 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -0.9 () CARRIAGE_RETURNS,IN_REP_TO,PLING_QUERY,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.16 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 15:10, Brett Glass wrote: > >Brett's main talents lie in complaining that others aren't writing > >code for FreeBSD. > > Not at all. In fact, this issue does not have to do with writing > code. It has to do with establishing sound fundamental principles > for the project. This comes first; code comes after. Maybe it does for BrettBSD, but this isn't that. IMHO one of the fundamental maxims of this project has been put up or shut up. Complaining that other people aren't as ideologically pure as you isn't very productive. Port a BSDL compiler instead. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message