Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 16:18:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton <DougB@DougBarton.net> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@redirect.to>, Andrew Hesford <ajh3@usrlib.org>, Gordon Tetlow <gordont@bluemtn.net>, Jon Parise <jon@csh.rit.edu>, Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>, Mark Santcroos <marks@ripe.net>, <bsddiy@163.net>, <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>, <eivind@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: import NetBSD rc system Message-ID: <20010614160808.L810-100000@dt051n37.san.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <200106141814.f5EIEOV15979@harmony.village.org>
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On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Warner Losh wrote:
> With all due respect to Eivind, he's reinventing the wheel. I'd like
> to see NetBSD's brought in with an absolute minimum of change.
If the project decides that this is the direction we want to take,
so be it. The point I don't want to get lost in right now is that given
that we have to make a fair amount of changes to port the thing anyway,
does it make more sense to try and do a "straight port," or does it make
more sense to try to learn from what's been done and improve on it? Luke
already agrees that there are some things that he'd like to improve, and
is eager to work with us. It would be foolish to waste that opportunity.
My plan at this point is to get a good general feeling about what
"we" want to do with this project, and then have the people who are
actually willing to do the work buckle down and do it. It's not really
helpful for people who aren't willing to put the work into this to tell
the people that are how it should be done. My hope is that when we're done
we can have a product that does the right things, is as fast or faster
than what we have now, and is less platform-specific than NetBSD's current
code, precisely because I'm committed to the idea of minimizing needless
platform-specific items whenever we can. Take a look at some of the
changes mergemaster has gone through over the past year as a result of my
work with Naddy on making it OpenBSD friendly as an example.
Doug
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