Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 07:53:58 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon@widomaker.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: time to step up to the SMP plate? Message-ID: <XFMail.010808075358.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20010807215153.B9801@widomaker.com>
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On 08-Aug-01 Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote: >> Hopefully, Open Source will be able to overcome its inherit >> handicaps; it may be that FreeBSD switches to using Perforce, or >> some other tool that gets rid of the "One True Head Branch" >> phenomenon, despite the commercial use pain that such a switch >> would entail (P4 is free for Open Source, but not for commercial >> companies tracking an Open Source project, whose repository is >> only available in P4). > > I would worry about committing to a tool that may or may not remain free > in the future. It would be better to come up with an open solution. Have you _used_ p4? :) It makes working on WIP's that aren't in HEAD yet _much_ easier. We've already got a p4 branch for the KSE work, and another one for SMPng work that isn't committed yet. If you want to rewrite p4, go for it, but it would take you a long time to do it. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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