From owner-freebsd-current Sat Dec 6 14:13:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA18758 for current-outgoing; Sat, 6 Dec 1997 14:13:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA18752 for ; Sat, 6 Dec 1997 14:13:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr02.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA12472; Sat, 6 Dec 1997 15:14:12 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr02.primenet.com(206.165.6.202) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd012459; Sat Dec 6 15:14:06 1997 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA09991; Sat, 6 Dec 1997 15:13:03 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199712062213.PAA09991@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: 3.0 -release ? To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Date: Sat, 6 Dec 1997 22:13:03 +0000 (GMT) Cc: shawn@cpl.net, chuckr@glue.umd.edu, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199712060641.XAA14258@harmony.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at Dec 5, 97 11:41:40 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > : Why should the FreeBSD people make the port collection work with other > : OS's? If thats not what some people were suggesting, forget this post. > > there are lots of reasons for wanting it. the ports are more common > than they are different. only a limited number of volunteers, etc. Total all volunteers for all camps and rerun your calculation. 8-). > however, as a practical matter, the number of differences between the > systems is large enough to cause enough problems that separate trees > really are a good thing at this time. This argues for a metadefinition of distinctions between systems. I'd even argue that this survey could be reused to great benefit in eliminating gratuitous differences. 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.