From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Sep 6 19:59:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wrs.com (unknown-1-11.windriver.com [147.11.1.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04A7F37B401; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 19:59:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@[147.11.46.201]) by mail.wrs.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAA28968; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 19:59:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20010906221831.A7899@coffee.q9media.com> Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 19:59:28 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: Mike Barcroft Subject: Re: libh src/ import Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org, Alexander Langer Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 07-Sep-01 Mike Barcroft wrote: > John Baldwin writes: >> On 06-Sep-01 Alexander Langer wrote: >> > Hi! >> > >> > How are peoples feelings about an import of libh into our src tree, >> > in order to push the development? >> >> As I said on IRC in an opinion that no one else seems to share, libh is >> useful >> in a wider regard than just FreeBSD, and I think it should be a separate >> project that gets vendor imported into src/contrib. Let's face it guys, >> FreeBSD doesn't have a lot of GUI people running around, and if libh is >> going >> to fly, it needs developers. IMHO, the best way to get developers for it is >> to >> not make it look like some FreeBSD-only thing, but instead to make it >> inviting >> to other developers. > [snip] > > FreeBSD is more than just a kernel, you know. I don't think we should > artificially limit ourselves by your imagination. Yes, I'm well aware, and I've been involved with libh (mostly earlier on) for about a year (not much since then) and I can appreciate it's design and it's role. -- John Baldwin -- 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-arch" in the body of the message