From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Jun 12 23:45:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from 12-234-22-238.client.attbi.com (12-234-90-219.client.attbi.com [12.234.90.219]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 930EA37B401; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 23:45:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Master.gorean.org (master.gorean.org [10.0.0.2]) by 12-234-22-238.client.attbi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g5D6jRXN006136; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 23:45:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by Master.gorean.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id g5D6jRJ0003598; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 23:45:27 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: Master.gorean.org: doug owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 23:45:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: RFC: remove xten from the base system? In-Reply-To: <20020612123518.GC34267@madman.nectar.cc> Message-ID: <20020612234305.W2539-100000@master.gorean.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: > This commit reminds me ... why are we still carrying the xten stuff > around? Lots of hysterical raisins in the archives on this. The traditional reasons it's still around amount to: 1. Some people actually use it. 2. The code has kernel bits (thus it's hard to port, not sure how true this is). 3. It's easier to keep in synch if it's in the tree, since people will see it get broken. Personally I'd like to see the people who care about this code get together and solve the porting problems. I agree that it has no place in the tree. Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message