From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 8 09:08:27 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B98CF37B401 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 09:08:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fed1mtao01.cox.net (fed1mtao01.cox.net [68.6.19.244]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F02AE43F75 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 09:08:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vns@mindspring.com) Received: from server.vns.oc.ca.us ([68.4.17.218]) by fed1mtao01.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.05 201-253-122-122-105-20011231) with ESMTP id <20030408160826.BDRL40.fed1mtao01.cox.net@server.vns.oc.ca.us>; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 12:08:26 -0400 Received: from server.vns.oc.ca.us (77393b9e0949ce81940ad3b181211111@localhost.vns.oc.ca.us [127.0.0.1]) by server.vns.oc.ca.us (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h38G8QBk098821; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 09:08:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vns@server.vns.oc.ca.us) Received: (from vsilyaev@localhost) by server.vns.oc.ca.us (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h38G8P21098820; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 09:08:25 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 09:08:25 -0700 From: "Vladimir N. Silyaev" To: Mark Santcroos Message-ID: <20030408160825.GA98754@server.vns.oc.ca.us> References: <20030408140338.GA44767@laptop.6bone.nl> <20030408141101.GA757@laptop.6bone.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030408141101.GA757@laptop.6bone.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: re-do vmware2 port X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 16:08:28 -0000 Recently I didn't have much time to work on VMware, and I would glad to welcome Mark as new maintainer for VMware2 FreeBSD port. Thank you for volunteering Mark! -- Vladimir On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 04:11:01PM +0200, Mark Santcroos wrote: > Related to the various patches over the last time: > > The whole process has become rather messy with it's patches on patches, etc. > > As I use vmware2 a lot, I depend on being able to quickly make changes when > something changes in -current. > > However, this way it causes me to spent more time patching vmware2 than > would be necessary. > > I therefor propose to make a new clean release of the source that includes > all the patches. > > So basically I'm volunteering to take over the maintainership if Vladimir > agrees. > > I know vmware[3,4] is already there but I forsee some future for the vmware2 > port for FreeBSD, so I don't think it will be a wasted effort. > > Any input welcome! > > Mark > > -- > Mark Santcroos RIPE Network Coordination Centre > http://www.ripe.net/home/mark/ New Projects Group/TTM