From owner-freebsd-current Sun Aug 3 07:34:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA26495 for current-outgoing; Sun, 3 Aug 1997 07:34:46 -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 HAA26490 for ; Sun, 3 Aug 1997 07:34:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id AAA14231; Mon, 4 Aug 1997 00:04:34 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199708031434.AAA14231@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: ports-current/packages-current discontinued In-Reply-To: from Ade Lovett at "Aug 3, 97 03:28:27 pm" To: ade@demon.net Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 00:04:33 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, current@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-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Ade Lovett stands accused of saying: > >commence a survey of the system in order to group the various > >components currently shipped as "bin" into a striaghtforward set of > >half a dozen or so functional groups. > > Spookily enough, that's *exactly* what I'm in the process of doing > right now, ploughing through the entire source tree, and trying > to come up with a workable list of components. Please do; and more importantly, if you're serious about this, please _stick_with_it_. This is not some short, once-done task but a vital and ongoing process which will have a very substantial bearing on the future shape of FreeBSD. -- ]] 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 [[