From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 31 23:57:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA10017 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 31 May 1997 23:57:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA10010 for ; Sat, 31 May 1997 23:57:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id QAA12401; Sun, 1 Jun 1997 16:27:18 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199706010657.QAA12401@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: LINT and GENERIC - between a rock and a generic place. In-Reply-To: <9876.865110612@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "May 31, 97 01:30:12 pm" To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Sun, 1 Jun 1997 16:27:17 +0930 (CST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying: > > 1. Someone starts off the discussion with "Well, why don't we just make up > some canned NEWS_SERVER, DESKTOP, WEB_SERVER and so on config files? > We can put comments at the beginning of each about how the user should > customize that file to fit certain situations and Bob's your bloody > uncle, we're there!" Do it. > Things would probably progress well from there if it weren't for the > stage-II participants in this discussion who then come up and say: I'm at least partly guilty here. I hereby promise to keep silent until I have something to show for all my ranting. > Jordan -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[