From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Dec 19 06:16:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA11484 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 06:16:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA11479 for ; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 06:16:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (haldjas.folklore.ee [172.17.2.1] (may be forged)) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.8.8/8.8.4) with SMTP id QAA05789; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 16:15:53 +0200 (EET) Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 16:15:53 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Terry Lambert , dkelly@hiwaay.net, FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Back to sysinstall (was Re: Fortran in the base system (was Re: sysinstall)) In-Reply-To: <64612.914042909@zippy.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > What about someone's copy of their pacakge flat file formats, with > > clone (clean room from published documentation) versions of their > > package manipulation commands? > > Well, nobody's offered such a thing to date, but I'd also have to say > this was a little bit late considering as I've already spent about > $10K on a contractor for the new package system. It's sort of waiting > in the wings for our compiler technology to catch up since the > contractor in question is also an avid C++ programmer and past the > point where gcc 2.7.2.1 is able to support his efforts (2.7.2's C++ > support is broken in a variety of well-known ways). > In other words: a) to get the new package system, we need good C/C++ compiler b) to get good C/C++ compiler, we need TenDRA c) to be able to use TenDRA, we need quite some changes to the system ? Or is there a shortcut? > - Jordan Sander There is no love, no good, no happiness and no future - all these are just illusions. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message