From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 18 16:23:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp05.primenet.com (smtp05.primenet.com [206.165.6.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 561CB37BBB0 for ; Thu, 18 May 2000 16:23:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr06.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp05.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA01523; Thu, 18 May 2000 16:23:32 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr06.primenet.com(206.165.6.206) via SMTP by smtp05.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAtVai8c; Thu May 18 16:23:27 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr06.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA10745; Thu, 18 May 2000 16:23:16 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200005182323.QAA10745@usr06.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Salon article on BSD To: narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee (Narvi) Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 23:23:15 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), nbm@mithrandr.moria.org (Neil Blakey-Milner), rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in (Rahul Siddharthan), mellon@pobox.com (Anatoly Vorobey), chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Narvi" at May 18, 2000 10:39:28 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > > 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). > > > > Actually, I think there have through time been some special branches > like say for CAM? Yes. What system that was competing with CAM was being developed at the same time in the context of its own branch, though? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message