From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 23 00:50:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA05057 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 23 May 1996 00:50:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA05039; Thu, 23 May 1996 00:50:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id RAA08123; Thu, 23 May 1996 17:35:25 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199605230805.RAA08123@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: src/gnu To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 17:35:24 +0930 (CST) Cc: hsu@freefall.freebsd.org, hackers@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199605230551.XAA07031@rover.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at May 22, 96 11:51:34 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Warner Losh stands accused of saying: > : > : I agree with Poul. The bmake paradigm for gcc just isn't working. > : If the ports model fits better, we should use that instead. > > One thing to consider is that the gnu software has a habbit of > disappearing off the FTP sites after a while. This would force an > ungrade or leave some people out in the cold should the FSF produce a > series of bad releases of a certain program. There's nothing that says that we should still be tracking the 'latest and greatest' there either. You'd just make sure that ftp.freebsd.org and mirrors carried the distfiles for the appropriate versions. > Warner -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[