Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:46:59 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: W Gerald Hicks <wghicks@bellsouth.net> Cc: Shigio Yamaguchi <shigio@tamacom.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GNU GLOBAL Message-ID: <37E44093.ABBA1C5@softweyr.com> References: <199909181750.NAA03329@bellsouth.net>
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W Gerald Hicks wrote:
>
> I don't see much of a problem, other than requiring its removal
> from the FreeBSD source tree. Although FreeBSD has a 'contrib'
> and 'gnu' hierarchy in the source tree, I believe the trend
> should be to reduce the existing members there and also to avoid
> adding new ones.
>
> imho, global (a fine software package) shouldn't have been in the
> OS source tree anyway. To me, the proper place seems to be in the
> ports collection along with many other development utilities.
>
> [...]
>
> I'll be preparing a port for global this afternoon and submitting
> a change request to have it removed from the source tree in favor
> of using the port on FreeBSD.
Yes, quite appropriate. Thanks for the idea *and* the bits, Jerry.
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