From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 6 14:47:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from fdy2.demon.co.uk (fdy2.demon.co.uk [194.222.102.143]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3429114C92 for ; Tue, 6 Apr 1999 14:47:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk) Received: (from rjs@localhost) by fdy2.demon.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA00481; Tue, 6 Apr 1999 22:38:45 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from rjs) Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 22:38:45 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <199904062138.WAA00481@fdy2.demon.co.uk> From: Robert Swindells To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <99040516311000.17621@ns1.cybersites.com> (message from Chuck Youse on Mon, 5 Apr 1999 16:29:55 -0400) Subject: Re: gdb 4.17 Reply-To: rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chuck Youse wrote: >Chuck Robey wrote: >>I hear this a lot, but it's a little hard to believe, then there's never >>any code. It's fine when it's your hobby, but you guys are asking >>everyone to take in code, which you could very easily add yourselves on >>your own hook. I know it's fun, and I've got my own hobby things hidden >>around here that haven't all gotten as far as I'd hoped, but I don't ask >>everyone to pay the freight for them, either, so I feel justified. >>I hate to be a part-pooper. Is it not true that you can add, on your >>own machine, all the bits you want for your projects on your own? And, >>also, that just the moment your project starts to show even the teeniest >>bit of life, that *at that point* the code could be added to FreeBSD? >>It's starting to seem that merely the vaguest wish that a FreeBSD port >>might be nice, is enough to qualify for including all the support code. >>I don't want to place the too high, but how about the possibility of >>placing the bar just a small step higher? >>Maybe you could suggest some rules on where to set the bar? Something >>you feel would be fair to you, fair to the FreeBSDers who don't want >>FreeBSD to get too overweight, and also easy to quantify, so we avoid >>arguments in the future. >Actually, you make a valid point. I'll keep my mouth shut until I actually >have something of substance in hand. Yeah, point taken, probably just knowing the versions of egcs and binutils used in the base system is enough to work with. I did state that the arm tools would be used at work - i.e. I will be getting paid to work on it - but I have a fast enough internet connection there to just download egcs again. Robert Swindells To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message