From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 18 14: 4:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from sj-msg-core-2.cisco.com (sj-msg-core-2.cisco.com [171.69.43.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88A2937B798 for ; Thu, 18 May 2000 14:04:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhix@mindspring.com) Received: from mira1.cisco.com (mira1.cisco.com [171.71.212.196]) by sj-msg-core-2.cisco.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA14549 for ; Thu, 18 May 2000 14:04:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mindspring.com (sjck-dial-gw5-10.cisco.com [10.19.238.11]) by mira1.cisco.com (Mirapoint) with ESMTP id AAG00873; Thu, 18 May 2000 14:04:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <39245C7C.920D61D2@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 14:11:24 -0700 From: W Gerald Hicks X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Salon article on BSD References: <200005182032.NAA21198@usr08.primenet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > > Well, whatever suits him -- and linux has improved phenomenally in the > > > > last 3 years, ie since its 1.2 days, so he must be doing something > > > > right. One can't say what *would* have happened if he'd done things > > > > differently. > > > > > > If he had adopted a constraining tool like CVS, Linux would have > > > forked on no less than 3 (mathematically) documentable occasions. > > > > What do you mean by "constraining"? > > It constrains you to a single line of developement. For example, > if FreeBSD wanted to work on a PPC port, there is a single line of > developement called "current". The work could not occur in the > "current" source tree, since it would be unacceptable to those > who hold the keys, who are people not using PPCs, by definition. > Like the Alpha port, it would have to occur in a vacuum, when the > current tree was relatively quiescent, and be followed by the risk > of non-apporval, and the requirement of a heroic integration > effort (such as we saw on the part of the Alpha team). There was a port which attempted to address this deficiency of CVS (ports/devel/cvslines) but alas the distfile seems to have disappeared from the net. The port may be found in our CVS Attic ;-) Cheers, Jerry Hicks jhix@mindspring.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message