Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:35:23 +0300 From: Alex Keda <admin@lissyara.su> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: propose: all arch move into a separate dir Message-ID: <4B90EC7B.7030806@lissyara.su> In-Reply-To: <e3e25b34d9476c02d80919fe5d09a5c3@mail.rabson.org> References: <17035.1267786772@critter.freebsd.dk> <4B90E6B3.9070906@lissyara.su> <e3e25b34d9476c02d80919fe5d09a5c3@mail.rabson.org>
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On 05.03.2010 14:16, Doug Rabson wrote: > On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:10:43 +0300, Alex Keda<admin@lissyara.su> wrote: > >> On 05.03.2010 13:59, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> >>> In message<4B90E171.2040808@lissyara.su>, Alex Keda writes: >>> >>> >>> >>>> then can a more correct name of the project or ClosedBSD or >>>> > ManagedBSD? > >>>> =) >>>> or something abstract? >>>> >>>> >>> You are free to use any other operating system of your choice, if you >>> are not happy with FreeBSD. >>> >>> Don't let the door hit you on the way out. >>> >>> >> I'm not going anywhere, not even hope for it =) >> I'm trying to make FreeBSD a better, more logical. >> Maybe that's not very successful, but judging by the number of >> responses, it hurt many, and made to think even more people. >> > I think you misunderstand. Some of us old-timers have been having this > discussion repeatedly for well over ten years. It always ends up the same > way - a re-org might make the source tree marginally prettier but the > consequences for long-term maintenance and supporting downstream > contributors outweigh any possible benefit. Having the same conversation > every two years with the same outcome gets annoying. > how many architectures supported 10 years ago? Two? It currently supports 11 or 12 - do not even know for sure. So make the transfer was 5 times harder. Let's wait another 10 years, and, coming at last to understand that this must be done, and do it was 20 times harder.
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