From owner-cvs-etc Fri Jun 21 23:29:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-cvs-etc Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA03879 for cvs-etc-outgoing; Fri, 21 Jun 1996 23:29:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.tfs.com (critter.cdrom.com [204.216.27.38]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA03871; Fri, 21 Jun 1996 23:29:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.tfs.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.tfs.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA14174; Fri, 21 Jun 1996 23:28:09 -0700 (PDT) To: Nate Williams cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-etc@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/mtree BSD.usr.dist In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 22 Jun 1996 00:15:11 MDT." <199606220615.AAA15802@rocky.sri.MT.net> Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 23:28:08 -0700 Message-ID: <14172.835424888@critter.tfs.com> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-cvs-etc@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <199606220615.AAA15802@rocky.sri.MT.net>, Nate Williams writes: >> Modified: etc/mtree BSD.usr.dist >> Log: >> Add tcl related directories. > >I thought the general consensus from the developers was the TCL and the >resulting nightmare was a bad idea. No that was >not< the general consensus, you are at best confusing several issues, or more likely, grinding your private axe in public. Just because you didn't use Tcl the right way when you tried, doesn't mean that it's a bad thing in general. By including it in FreeBSD, you will get access to code that will maybe be able to show you why various heavy-weights call it "the most significant event in the history of software tools". >I don't know of any developer besides Jordan and you who want this, and >Jordan appears to have washed his hands of this, so it's your wishes >against the wishes of everyone else. Maybe you don't read all your email, but I read all mine. >I was going to wipe out the TCL stuff this weekend if you didn't get to it. Don't. The closest we got to a common concensus of any kind is that "things shall be bmaked", a document about this policy is being reviewed right now bu Peter who was the only one that really showed any informed interest in the subject (as opposed to people going balistic or beating their chest) and tcl will be converted to that model, probably during the weekend. (Which means another semi-big cvs delta btw, sorry!) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.