Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 17:39:35 -0800 (PST) From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: des@flood.ping.uio.no (Dag-Erling Smorgrav) Cc: axl@iafrica.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Crippleware (was Re: adding DHCP client to src/contrib/) Message-ID: <199902100139.RAA69620@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <xzpiudbhxg7.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> from Dag-Erling Smorgrav at "Feb 10, 1999 2:14:16 am"
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Sheldon Hearn <axl@iafrica.com> writes: > > Anyway, 30 minutes later, I've figured it out. You're endorsing FreeBSD > > crippleware. I sincerely hope that your attitude is _not_ endorsed by > > the core team. > > Steve isn't even a committer. He's one of those oh-so-many people who > love to whine about practically anything we do, on the assumption that > they know better, even though they never do any work of their own. > I was going to let this die because I've been convince that dhcp might be useful, but ad hominem attacks tend to beg a response. Oh please, I don't whine about every little change. I applaud the work that Matt Dillon is doing within the VM system and NFS. I appreciate the work that Satoshi and even David O'Brien do in trying to maintain sanity in the ports collection. You'll find that I've sent patches and they've either been committed or rewritten to the liking of a committer. Where did the "-C" option for install(1) come from? bde pick up on somethings I did a long time ago. He rewrote (and I admit improved) upon my ideas. [I added a "-z" that also compressed as it installed the file, but this was argued against.] Check the log files for f2c. You'll see my name. I have even gone as far as providing a way to remove f2c because Mike Smith asked me. That work, is sitting and waiting. I've sent in numerous patches to the documentation when Mike Pitchard(sp?) wentr through the manpage with a clean up sweep. Check on the addition of the "-a" option to /usr/bin/time, and other clean-ups to /usr/bin/time. There is talk about importing John Galbraith's GPIB driver into -current. I provided the patches to John so it would compile of (pre-3.0-RELEASE) -current. Sure, my contributions might be small compare to bde or even your contributions, but I send patches when I have find a problem. Finally, when do I get my commit priveleges so I won't receive any further condescending flames from you. -- Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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