Date: Sat, 6 Dec 1997 22:13:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Cc: shawn@cpl.net, chuckr@glue.umd.edu, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0 -release ? Message-ID: <199712062213.PAA09991@usr02.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199712060641.XAA14258@harmony.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at Dec 5, 97 11:41:40 pm
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> : 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.
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