From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG  Thu Apr  8 12:01:35 2010
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E06B106566B;
	Thu,  8 Apr 2010 12:01:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no)
Received: from smtp.des.no (smtp.des.no [194.63.250.102])
	by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9DE78FC34;
	Thu,  8 Apr 2010 12:01:34 +0000 (UTC)
Received: from ds4.des.no (des.no [84.49.246.2])
	by smtp.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 089C91FFC22;
	Thu,  8 Apr 2010 12:01:34 +0000 (UTC)
Received: by ds4.des.no (Postfix, from userid 1001)
	id DD803844A8; Thu,  8 Apr 2010 14:01:33 +0200 (CEST)
From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
References: <55861270658151@web135.yandex.ru>
	<l2we277d6c81004071049h21670783ic4a9f419aedca272@mail.gmail.com>
	<4BBD68DB.7050600@yandex.ru> <201004080727.21020.bruce@cran.org.uk>
	<4BBD7CDC.2070505@yandex.ru>
	<20100408103809.13496s9i6ny03ocg@webmail.leidinger.net>
	<867hoi8gbl.fsf@ds4.des.no>
	<20100408121500.13995d1eu7b9bt0k@webmail.leidinger.net>
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 14:01:33 +0200
In-Reply-To: <20100408121500.13995d1eu7b9bt0k@webmail.leidinger.net>
	(Alexander Leidinger's message of "Thu, 08 Apr 2010 12:15:00 +0200")
Message-ID: <86fx36up9e.fsf@ds4.des.no>
User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.95 (berkeley-unix)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Cc: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG,
	freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG, Teske <dteske@vicor.com>,
	Randi Harper <randi@FreeBSD.ORG>,
	"Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru>, Devin@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: [RFC] Rewriting sade(8)
X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current
	<freebsd-current.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current>,
	<mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 12:01:35 -0000

Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> writes:
> I think this is more complicated than to refactor the interesting part
> into a backend with an API which both tools can use. This would also
> allow someone to write a GUI program (e.g. for PC-BSD).

There have been at least three or four attempts to do this in the past.
One of them was even fully funded by the FreeBSD Foundation.  They all
failed.

DES
--=20
Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no