Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 07:37:37 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com> Cc: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>, sos@freebsd.org, gpalmer@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org, peter@freebsd.org Subject: Re: src/gnu Message-ID: <790.832862257@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 23 May 1996 07:26:58 PDT." <Pine.GSO.3.92.960523071934.555A-100000@hamby1>
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> over to ELF, this becomes viable again. In the meantime, I propose the > "ports" idea be used for GCC, CVS, RCS, groff, gzip, tar, and anything > else in the tree from FSF. Even non-GPL stuff like ncurses would > benefit from this! Comments? I vote we start small on things that have historically required very infrequent modification, like gcc, groff, rcs and gzip. I'd hesitate to jump straight into something like ncurses, for example, as it's possible that we may be dinking around in there for awhile (Andrey always has a dozen things he has to fix to make it 8 bit clean again :-) and the ports model sucks for things you're trying to hack on more frequently in collaboration with others. Jordan
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