From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 21 15:10:19 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E556710656FD; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:10:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joel@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail.vnode.se (mail.vnode.se [62.119.52.82]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EFDC8FC08; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:10:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from iMac.local (pgw.vnode.se [77.110.37.134]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.vnode.se (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6FC03E9F42C; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:50:33 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4AB792B7.10206@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:50:31 +0200 From: Joel Dahl User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Macintosh/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ed Schouten References: <20090921112657.GW95398@hoeg.nl> In-Reply-To: <20090921112657.GW95398@hoeg.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: tmux(1) in base X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:10:20 -0000 Ed Schouten skrev: > Hi all, > > At the DevSummit in Cambridge we briefly discussed including tmux(1) in > the base system. We recently had window(1) there, but unfortunately > window(1) was a very limited tool, compared to tools like screen(1) and > tmux(1). Why tmux(1) and not screen(1)? Well, simple. The first has a > better license and very active maintenance. > > I was talking with the author on IRC the other day and it seemed like I > spoke with him at a fortunate moment, because he was just about to > release version 1.0. I think it would be nice to import this into HEAD, > which means FreeBSD 9.0 (maybe 8.1?) will include it by default. > > How to test tmux in base: > > - Download this tarball and extract it to contrib/tmux: > http://downloads.sourceforge.net/tmux/tmux-1.0.tar.gz > - Apply the following patch: > http://80386.nl/pub/tmux.diff > > Comments? Yes, please! Screen has almost always been the first thing I install on new machines, but recently I've been switching more and more machines over to tmux instead. Having it in base would be a great addition. -- Joel