Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 13:23:38 +0000 From: Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org> To: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-15?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Moving flex and yacc to contrib/, all hell breaks loose? Message-ID: <20101109132338.GA70099@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <86eiaw0wsf.fsf@ds4.des.no> References: <20101107141804.GN85693@acme.spoerlein.net> <86eiaw0wsf.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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On Mon Nov 8 10, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Ulrich Spörlein <uqs@spoerlein.net> writes: > > To my knowledge, the only "vendor" software in our tree, not yet living > > under cddl/, contrib/, crypto/ or gnu/ are > > > > lib/libc/softfloat > > lib/libz > > lib/msun > > usr.bin/lex > > usr.bin/unifdef > > usr.bin/yacc > > I have no opinion on the others, but AFAIK, msun is a mix of unmodified > third-party code, locally modified third-party code and locally > developed code (which is how my name ended up in the Android credits), > and I'm not sure there still is a third-party maintainer for our version > of msun. i talked to david hough who is working for oracle. he said that oracle has no business interest in libmsun at all! the mailinglist fdlibm-comments@sun.com will be shut down and every issues etc. with libmsun shall now be discussed here: http://mailman.oakapple.net/mailman/listinfo/numeric-interest this message contains a brief statement by oracle [1]. so it seems lib/msun can be moved to the list of third party software with ceased upstream development. cheers. alex [1] http://mailman.oakapple.net/pipermail/numeric-interest/2010-September/002054.html > > DES > -- > Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@des.no -- a13x
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