Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 17:40:21 +0100 From: Szilveszter Adam <sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> To: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BAS software Message-ID: <19991217174021.D12454@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9912171058160.10407-100000@bytor.rush.net>; from lynch@bsdunix.net on Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 11:12:50AM -0500 References: <3859BA98.EE868489@softweyr.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9912171058160.10407-100000@bytor.rush.net>
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Hi! On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 11:12:50AM -0500, Pat Lynch wrote: > On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Wes Peters wrote: > > > Actually it would also be nice of people who are ports maintainers can > learn the differences btwn each of the project's port stuff (theres only a > couple things) and write makefiles/patches for ports so they compile on > all three platforms, and submit them to each ports/pkg-src maintainer. Hmmmm.... Of course this would be great! But have you considered this: FreeBSD has it easy because we mainly have to care for the x86 platform (yes sure we also support Alpha but there is a huge difference in the user base...) whereas OpenBSD also supports Alpha and the Sparc. NetBSD supports an endless variety of platforms. And the user base of those flavors is a much more balanced mix. For example surprisingly many people are running OpenBSD on the Sparc. And of course they all want ports available. With some ports this is no problem, but even we have a couple of ONLY_FOR_ARCHS ports which in practice means only for x86... and consider that even in (Open|Net)BSD with its multiplatform focus there are some fundamental things missing from non-x86 implementations, like virtual consoles for the Sparc which makes this work you are proposing a huge one with a need for many development machines and experienced programmers... and also on OpenBSD for example ports are only guaranteed to work on -CURRENT, which in practice is a snapshot (there is no separate -CURRENT and -STABLE branch on OBSD) and it makes testing difficult because it is constantly moving target... but it would be really nice indeed to have this sort of cooperation! Just some quick thoughts... Regards: Szilveszter ADAM -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Szilveszter ADAM * JATE Szeged * email: sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu * * Homepage : none * alternate email: cc@flanker.itl.net.ua * * Finger sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu for PGP key. * * I prefer using the door instead of Windows(tm)... * To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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