From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jan 4 19:18:17 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB20D37B401 for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 19:18:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net (snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E20E43EC5 for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 19:18:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rsidd@papagena.rockefeller.edu) Received: from user-0cev12d.cable.mindspring.com ([24.239.132.77] helo=bluerondo.a.la.turk) by snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18V1Il-0004Tc-00 for chat@freebsd.org; Sat, 04 Jan 2003 19:18:15 -0800 Received: (qmail 60402 invoked by uid 1001); 5 Jan 2003 03:17:51 -0000 Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 22:17:51 -0500 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Brett Glass Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: On GCC Message-ID: <20030105031751.GA34421@papagena.rockefeller.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20030104193746.0285b9c0@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brett Glass wrote: > The other problem, from my standpoint, is that it's C. Oh great. So not only do we need to write a new compiler for FreeBSD, we also need to rewrite the whole system in Modula-3 or whatever. Of course, it's still not you who's going to volunteer for that job, is it, Brett? > The OpenBSD camp (or at least Theo) hasn't been receptive when > I've suggested "un-GNUing" their toolchain in the past. So who *has* been receptive? As in, which actual contributor to one of these projects? You know what? You don't *need* to get any of these camps interested. All these projects have immense amounts of BSD licensed code already out there, and you can simply pick it up and do what you like with it. If you want to replace all GPL code, you're free to fork and do that. You don't need to ask anyone's permission. Theo didn't, when he started OpenBSD. - Rahul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message