Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 08:37:11 -0600 (CST) From: "M. L. Dodson" <bdodson@beowulf.utmb.edu> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall Message-ID: <199812091437.IAA03589@beowulf.utmb.edu> In-Reply-To: <18396.913171861@zippy.cdrom.com> References: <199812082027.NAA24541@bamboo.verinet.com> <18396.913171861@zippy.cdrom.com>
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Jordan K. Hubbard writes: > > What bits, if any, of sysinstall's successor are currently available? I > > have read in -hackers and -commit about the desire to replace > > sysinstall. I thought I had read that Mike Smith was currently working > > on this. > [deleted] > In any case, the new package system is still very much a WIP and also > has some pretty hefty prerequisites: > > Qt 1.40 or later. > TurboVision 0.6 or later. > gcc 2.8.1 or later (also including egcs). > > The latter is the biggie for most folks since 2.7.2, our current > compiler, has C++ support which is broken in too many ways for Eugene > to write the kind of C++ code he wanted to write (he's a big fan of > templates and MI). Since we've wanted to upgrade our compiler > toolchain for some time, I figured this was as good a justification as > any and am still looking for a team to jump in with egcs 1.1.1 and > start looking at the integration issues. Both Poul-Henning Kamp, John > Polstra and Peter Wemm have looked into this a bit already but time > constraints will probably prevent any of them from doing anything more > substantive than that for awhile. In other words, people are welcome > to jump in on this one! :) > > - Jordan If I might, I would like to suggest that any project along this line look to include g77 as well as C++ as part of the base system. This would help those of us interested in using FBSD for number crunching. I can generate some testing time, including compiling and testing some pretty hefty computational chemistry packages. Unfortunately, I'm a biochemist who knows about computers, not a computer scientist who knows about biochemistry, so my time would only be usefully used in a testing mode. Thanks, Bud Dodson -- M. L. Dodson bdodson@scms.utmb.edu 409-772-2178 FAX: 409-772-1790 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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