From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 23 09:07:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA24255 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 23 May 1996 09:07:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tfs.com (tfs.com [140.145.250.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA24245; Thu, 23 May 1996 09:07:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.tfs.com by tfs.com (smail3.1.28.1) with SMTP id m0uMcv0-0003x0C; Thu, 23 May 96 09:07 PDT Received: from critter.tfs.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.tfs.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id BAA01676; Thu, 23 May 1996 01:53:20 GMT To: Warner Losh cc: Jeffrey Hsu , hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: src/gnu In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 22 May 1996 23:51:34 CST." <199605230551.XAA07031@rover.village.org> Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 01:53:15 +0000 Message-ID: <1674.832816395@critter.tfs.com> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > : > Apart from that, wouldn't it make more sense to use the "ports" paradig m > : > on them instead of checking in all the files ? In theory we should be > : > running pretty much footool-9.3.tar.gz with a few patches, so why not > : > speed up our CVS-tree by actually not checking in the thousands of file s > : > : I agree with Poul. The bmake paradigm for gcc just isn't working. > : If the ports model fits better, we should use that instead. > > One thing to consider is that the gnu software has a habbit of > disappearing off the FTP sites after a while. This would force an > ungrade or leave some people out in the cold should the FSF produce a > series of bad releases of a certain program. Well, all >we< have to do is to keep it around, right ? :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.