Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 17:25:30 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bzip2 in src tree (Was Re: ports/16252: bsd.port.mk: Add bzi Message-ID: <200001242225.RAA00429@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <v04220807b4b269b1b9de@[195.238.1.121]> References: <200001241901.OAA14380@server.baldwin.cx> <v04220807b4b269b1b9de@[195.238.1.121]>
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<<On Mon, 24 Jan 2000 21:42:45 +0100, Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> said: >I'm curious as to how a choice like this gets made. Could you elaborate? Other people have answered with the why but not the how. Choices (like this one about archive formats) get made when people sit down and actually do the work to improve FreeBSD. People with commit bits are generally (but not completely) trusted to have an understanding of software-system aesthetics and of the sorts of choices developers might reasonably make on their own. The more effort one is personally willing to put into the project, the greater latitute one has in design. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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