Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 09:25:51 +1030 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Alfred Perlstein <perlsta@cs.sunyit.edu> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your commentary gripe (was Re: svgalib? (forget the newbies) ) Message-ID: <199710292255.JAA02415@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 29 Oct 1997 17:57:26 CDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.971029174820.6656B-100000@server.local.sunyit.edu>
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> (i hope no one takes offence at this, please badger me and show me where i > can find stuff to answer this) CVS logs. "The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System". -hackers list archive. > specifically here's my gripe with FreeBSD and the XFree86 peoples, COMMENT > YOUR CODE A LITTLE MORE DAMMIT :) Are you complaining about FreeBSD code, or legacy CSRG code, or code from some other source? If you want to undertake to comment all that old hair that nobody else ever did, please do! > it's not just tracing through the code, i know the structure allows for > such great things as CVSups and other methods of updating the sourcecode, > but some simple documentation explaining how to not only make code for > freebsd, but something that is compadible with the structures already in > place would be nice... There is no "simple documentation" because it's not "simple", and the effort of producing such documentation is pretty monstrous. In most cases, the code is actually quite bearably followable, and once you learn your way around the system it only gets better. However, if you want to write "BSD Kernel Source for Dummies", go right ahead... mike
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