From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 22 13:00:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA22171 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 22 May 1996 13:00:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tfs.com (tfs.com [140.145.250.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA22163; Wed, 22 May 1996 13:00:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.tfs.com by tfs.com (smail3.1.28.1) with SMTP id m0uMK5F-0003weC; Wed, 22 May 96 13:00 PDT Received: from critter.tfs.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.tfs.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id UAA00781; Wed, 22 May 1996 20:00:36 GMT To: "Gary Palmer" cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, peter@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: src/gnu In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 22 May 1996 20:38:45 +0100." <11188.832793925@palmer.demon.co.uk> Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 20:00:34 +0000 Message-ID: <779.832795234@critter.tfs.com> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Comments? What does our current cvs meister thing? > > (The reason behind the move is the fact that the import wasn't done > properly in the first place, and if I remember, the tools were just > brought over wholesale from the 1.x source tree rather than being > seperately imported so that they could be mainained). Isn't the fundamental problem that nobody maintains them, rather than how they're maintained ? Apart from that, wouldn't it make more sense to use the "ports" paradigm on them instead of checking in all the files ? In theory we should be running pretty much footool-9.3.tar.gz with a few patches, so why not speed up our CVS-tree by actually not checking in the thousands of files but rather access them by reference via the tar file ? That would also make it easier to show that we do the "GPL" thing... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.