Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 22:32:55 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: Mike Meyer <mwm@phone.net>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Musings about tracking FreeBSD... Message-ID: <36F79807.898E95D0@newsguy.com> References: <44883.922159934@zippy.cdrom.com>
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"Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > > Waking up and coming back to the real world for a moment here, I can > say that some of this packaging technology exists now but is still in > a very green state and requires egcs to compile due to its more > advanced use of C++ than 2.7.2.x can handle. It also requires > Turbovision and/or Qt as interface back-end libraries and both need to > be egcs compiled to work properly. All of this makes it a bit hard to > release it for general play-time and it's really also not quite to the > state of being ready for peer-review yet in any case, so that's why > it's not been more widely released. Even with the work that's been > done to date and the work we're immediately contemplating, however, > it's still a pale fraction of the "wish list reality" I depict above. > That's where I'd really like to *get* to, not where I expect to get to > right away (unless a lot of people become suddenly infected with the > idea and start coding like possessed maniacs, I guess). :) It's a lack of soul, really. We just don't have the amount of souls the Devil would ask for that. :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "Someone's trying to hack into our server." "Wow... How flattering!" "I know. There must be some mistake." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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