From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 23 7:30:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DD9614E89 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 07:30:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id AAA06919; Wed, 24 Mar 1999 00:30:52 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <36F79807.898E95D0@newsguy.com> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 22:32:55 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Mike Meyer , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Musings about tracking FreeBSD... References: <44883.922159934@zippy.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "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