From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 10 22:02:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA05900 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 22:02:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from parkplace.cet.co.jp (parkplace.cet.co.jp [202.32.64.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA05440 for ; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 21:55:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from michaelh@cet.co.jp) Received: from localhost (michaelh@localhost) by parkplace.cet.co.jp (8.8.8/CET-v2.2) with SMTP id FAA13701; Thu, 11 Dec 1997 05:54:59 GMT Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 14:54:58 +0900 (JST) From: Michael Hancock To: "J. Weatherbee - Senior Systems Architect" cc: FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: OS Ports In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk John didn't flame you, he gave you a very diplomatic answer. Don't worry about being flamed, it's easier to react strongly in email. What you suggested was pretty masochistic. You really want to be closer to where your going than where you are now. Also, you don't want to destablise stable! Regards, Mike Hancock On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, J. Weatherbee - Senior Systems Architect wrote: > > Boy I got flamed for that remark, my point was that if he is going to do > a port of FreeBSD and it is going to be meaningful it needs to be stable > (Theyv'e already got a Linux port for SPARCS). I'm not saying that > -current is not stable, maybye what I am trying to say is that he needs > both. Anyway do you want everyone using SPARC FreeBSD to be running > -current? Anyway your in for a big project. > > > On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, John S. Dyson wrote: > > > J. Weatherbee - Senior Systems Architect said: > > > > > > Wouldn't porting -stable first be a better project, after all you want a > > > quality product and that is what stable is. > > > > > Respectfully, it probably would not be a good idea, but it would be better to > > start from a recent, stable -current. It is *much* easier to get support from > > the developers on -current. -stable is approaching a year old now. > > > > -- > > John > > dyson@freebsd.org > > jdyson@nc.com > > > -- michaelh@cet.co.jp http://www.cet.co.jp CET Inc., Daiichi Kasuya BLDG 8F 2-5-12, Higashi Shinbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105 Japan Tel: +81-3-3437-1761 Fax: +81-3-3437-1766