From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jun 19 12:40:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA11689 for current-outgoing; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 12:40:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA11684 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 12:40:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA19979; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 15:39:42 -0400 Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 15:39:42 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9606191939.AA19979@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Mark Murray Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tcl -- what's going on here. In-Reply-To: <199606191837.UAA00804@grumble.grondar.za> References: <199606191837.UAA00804@grumble.grondar.za> Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < said: > 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. My cynical version: because that would only be about five inches from actually converting it to Berkeley macros, and PHK wants to avoid the necessity of doing this. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant