Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 23:52:38 -0800 (PST) From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk, tlambert@primenet.com, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0 -release ? Message-ID: <199712060752.XAA20919@tao.thought.org> In-Reply-To: <16948.881377460@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Dec 5, 97 07:04:20 pm"
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According to Jordan K. Hubbard: > > > I like this. I think that there should be coordination with the > > > OpenBSD and NetBSD folks to make sure they are usable "out of the box" > > > for them as well. It could become simply "The BSD ports collection". > > > > YES! I definitely agree with this idea -- since OpenBSD already > > uses the ports... Having a common set of CD's / archives that > > This would be nice, but I'd also have to *test* these packages on > those platforms or at least cooperate closely with someone from each > camp to do so, and frankly that's a lot more extra work than I feel > comfortable signing up for. > > Again, it "would be nice", I'm not disputing that, I'm simply saying > that if we don't keep our goalset small, at least for the first couple > of iterations of this, then we won't get it done for any of the *BSDs > (including FreeBSD). > > Hm. Closely linking the 3 BSD's would be such a major win that we need to put in the effort, I think. If the proposed ``port-server'' is realized, why not put Net|Open disks on the platform and co-ordinate the ports effort. The NetBSD and OpenBSD teams could share and repicrocate. Have you talked to the Net|Open folks, Jordan? At the very least, we ought to keep this idea in focus; it's solid. We can only gain. gary -- Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public service uNix
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