From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 2 17:49:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8347614DC3 for ; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 17:49:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from localhost (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA61411; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 17:46:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) To: Jamie Norwood Cc: Mike Smith , Colin Eric Johnson , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: suggestion: distfiles CD In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 02 Sep 1999 16:48:09 PDT." <19990902164809.A57535@mushhaven.net> Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 17:46:13 -0700 Message-ID: <61407.936319573@localhost> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Waaaay overkill for what is being asked about. And besides, this only comes >out, what, twice a year? Less often than FreeBSD, at the least. Personally, >I subscribe to this, but have never used it so will be cancelling. The ports >distfiles were hard to locate anything on, there was no documentation on how >to access any of it's features, and most of it was very outdated before it was >even released. On top of that, 3.2 came out soon after this was released, >rendering it even more useless. All in all, this product got a definate 'f' > from me, and I don't recommend it to anyone. I'm sorry you had such an unpleasant experience with the toolkit, though you should also bear in mind that this was our very _first_ run at this product and if you ever saw the FreeBSD 1.0 CD, you'll realize that we do evolve in response to customer feedback. The toolkit is no exception, and I believe the 2nd one will be far more useful than the 1st, the 3rd probably being even more useful, and so on. :) Doing CDs takes time, both for production and replication, and doing 10 releases a year of a "distfiles" CD or whatever is just not practical. I hope that we'll do the toolkit more often, say 3-4 times a year, and having 6 CDs available will mean that we'll be able to put a lot more distfiles on it. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message