From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 23 10:10:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA13103 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 10:10:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA13087 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 10:10:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id JAA15936; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 09:40:39 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199608231640.JAA15936@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Am I wrong or is this just stupid?r To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 09:40:39 -0700 (MST) Cc: rkw@dataplex.net, proff@suburbia.net, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20921.840817104@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Aug 23, 96 09:18:24 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > IMHO, the problem occurs because of the "build in place" mentality as > > opposed to the idea of "moving down the block". If we would adopt the idea > > that everything is made in a context which, in general, is NOT that of the > > running system, we can get a number of benefits. > > This sounds like one of those things that's very credible on paper but > is something for which I'd like to see the working prototype before > pulling up stakes and moving to. What I'm proposing is only an > incremental refinement, and the efficacy of it is easy to prove. What > you're proposing is another one of those blanket statements of change > with no working parts to examine or discuss. Bleah. Have you seen SVR4 sources? This is the *one* *uno* *ichi* *eins* thing they got right about their source tree. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.