Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 22:05:41 -0400 From: James Howard <howardjp@well.com> To: James Howard <howardjp@well.com> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Eric Melville <eric@FreeBSD.ORG>, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: src/games bikeshed time. Message-ID: <C779989E-DBF4-11D6-8BA8-003065BAAC62@well.com> In-Reply-To: <C310A4CC-DBF3-11D6-8BA8-003065BAAC62@well.com>
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As a quick follow up, the PR database shows between fifteen and twenty PRs relating to src/games. Also, if this happened, should fortune be treated differently and moved into src/usr.bin? Or should it become a port? Jamie On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 09:58 PM, James Howard wrote: > So if someone were willing to take over the lot and manage them as > Ports, > how would anyone feel about this? > > FreeGrep uses the FreeBSD build style and is easily a Port. I could > Port-ify the entire directory in, say, two days. Anyone interested? > > Jamie > > On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 09:41 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: > >> On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 04:27:15PM -0700, Eric Melville wrote: >>>> The current flare-up over src/games/wargames reminds me that we are >>>> carrying a bunch of Really Old Stuff in usr/games/. >>>> >>>> Yes folks, its that time of the year. >>>> >>>> I ask myself, "why are we wasting ``make world'' time and install >>>> bandwidth on 1970's-era games?". >>>> >>>> Some folks will answer "tradition". This argument holds little >>>> water. Programs come and go, and there is no firm reference or >>>> agreement >>>> as to what is "really traditional". This agument can be used to >>>> import >>>> emacs on the grounds that it is documented in the O'Reilly BSD 4.4 >>>> books. >>> >>> I'm all for moving them to the projects directory in cvs, that seemed >>> like >>> a good solution for sccs. >> >> Well, that's only useful if it's actually a project, i.e. if people >> plan to develop them. Since that hasn't happened for most of the >> games in /usr/games over the lifetime of FreeBSD it's not likely this >> is about to change. >> >> Kris >> > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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