From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 24 02:51:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA14615 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 24 May 1996 02:51:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from onyx.nervosa.com (root@nervosa.com [192.187.228.86]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA14596; Fri, 24 May 1996 02:51:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from coredump@localhost) by onyx.nervosa.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA01862; Fri, 24 May 1996 02:50:51 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 02:50:51 -0700 (PDT) From: "Chris J. Layne" To: Michael Smith cc: Jean-Marc Zucconi , gpalmer@freebsd.org, phk@critter.tfs.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: src/gnu In-Reply-To: <199605240638.QAA13532@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 24 May 1996, Michael Smith wrote: > - distribute the port frame unpacked, ie. at the 'make configure' state. > This would mean no extracting, no tarball, configuring or patching > unless you blew away the .configure_done file. From the point of view > of the average 'worlder' this would make for the least impact. > When a new GCC was brought in, it would have a new directory name under > work/, so the old one could just be thrown out/attic-ed, so no more > move/rename hassles. Good idea! > ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ == Chris Layne ======================================== Nervosa Computing == == coredump@nervosa.com ================ http://www.nervosa.com/~coredump ==