From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 18 18:47: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.xmission.com (mail.xmission.com [198.60.22.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10F8614CAE for ; Sat, 18 Sep 1999 18:47:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from [204.68.178.39] (helo=softweyr.com) by mail.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 11SW4D-0001lc-00; Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:47:01 -0600 Message-ID: <37E44093.ABBA1C5@softweyr.com> Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:46:59 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: W Gerald Hicks Cc: Shigio Yamaguchi , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GNU GLOBAL References: <199909181750.NAA03329@bellsouth.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message