From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jul 17 14:38:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from boreas.isi.edu (boreas.isi.edu [128.9.160.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A29AD37B55F for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 14:38:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from larse@ISI.EDU) Received: from isi.edu (hbo.isi.edu [128.9.160.75]) by boreas.isi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA06377; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 14:38:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <39737CC3.3F02D950@isi.edu> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 14:38:11 -0700 From: Lars Eggert Organization: USC Information Sciences Institute X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en, de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: itojun@iijlab.net Cc: snap-users@kame.net, stable@freebsd.org, xbone@ISI.EDU Subject: Re: (KAME-snap 2945) Re: KAME/FreeBSD-stable merge References: <14510.963869630@coconut.itojun.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG itojun@iijlab.net wrote: > > >> - it does not seem like a common option to me (it is just a quickhack > >> for supporting special need at xbone project, which could have been > >> handled as local patch), and it does not seem to me good for > >> integrating into freebsd-current/releases > >The first xbone release has been downloaded a few hundred times in the > >first few days (I haven't looked at the logs since), and we've been on > >slashdot, so I'd say there is an audience out there. > > > >Also, it seems to me that there are plenty of options in FreeBSD dealing > >with enabling support for 3rd party software packages, or experimental code > >for people to play with - off the top of my head: USER_LDT, XSERVER, NULL, > >PORTAL, UMAP, UNION, PPS_SYNC, ... The xbone switch falls in the same > >category. > > do you have xbone userland tool in freebsd master repository? > i believed not. xserver is officially supported by freebsd and > userland tools are in the tree. the situation looks different for me. The xbone port has been submitted to the ports maintainers since 3/20/00. -- Lars Eggert Information Sciences Institute http://www.isi.edu/larse/ University of Southern California To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message