Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 05:24:19 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> To: Bruce M Simpson <bms@incunabulum.net> Cc: Marko Zec <zec@freebsd.org>, Marko Zec <zec@icir.org>, Marko Zec <zec@imunes.net>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, FreeBSD Current <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: warning of pending commit attempt. Message-ID: <20080227182419.GD83599@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <47C59D35.2060801@incunabulum.net> References: <47C39948.3080907@elischer.org> <47C4BB96.80804@icir.org> <47C4E87B.8010403@elischer.org> <47C59D35.2060801@incunabulum.net>
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--pe+tqlI1iYzVj1X/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 05:26:13PM +0000, Bruce M Simpson wrote: >I speculate the majority of the user base don't actually need vimage. You could probably say that about lots of base features. Julian has confirmed that it can be compiled out so I don't see this as a problem. >It is reminiscent of the opening chapters of Douglas Adams' "Hitchhiker's= =20 >Guide to the Galaxy", where notice of the change, to their mind, was poste= d=20 >in a basement filing cabinet behind a locked door with a sign saying=20 >"Beware of the leopard". Hence this thread. Anyone who is likely to be affected is supposed to be reading this mailing list. It's not clear what else Julian should do to warn/inform people. >Perforce doesn't really cut it for opening up code to the public at large,= =20 >as we have seen, and has real limitations, both in these terms and in term= s=20 >of its resource use. The alternative is to put the code in CVS. And from what I've read in this thread, the code sounds like it's ready. (Though making a patch set generally available in the interim would probably be useful). --=20 Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. --pe+tqlI1iYzVj1X/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHxarS/opHv/APuIcRAvQYAJ43xMjTsdWnoaIok5j1FXIN7RGicACcD45S PXYlShHjbOOIU5RW66Ppn4E= =QNha -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --pe+tqlI1iYzVj1X/--
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