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Date:      Thu, 1 Nov 2001 18:07:18 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.freebsd.org>
Cc:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/ficl/softwords softcore.awk
Message-ID:  <20011101180718.D82798@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <46299.1004647517@winston.freebsd.org>; from jkh@winston.freebsd.org on Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 12:45:17PM -0800
References:  <sheldonh@starjuice.net> <46299.1004647517@winston.freebsd.org>

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On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 12:45:17PM -0800, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
> we should simply go back to GNU awk *which worked fine*

I am not against this, although I would like another day or so before
doing this so we can fully know why this isn't working out the next time
the idea comes up.


> Given all the far more important things we need to be focusing on right
> now, it is an almost incomprehensible waste of time to be fixing things
> that were not broken to begin with

I wish you would stop bringing up this argument.  Being a volunteer
effort people will work on what interests them, not necessarily what
"needs to be done".  You should know that.  Those working on things that
"needs to be done" were not spending time on the awk conversion.

There was also reports of other tree breakage also, so I cannot be fully
blamed for that either.


> (and let's not get into the GPL vs
> BSD debate here - this is a functionality issue
> to which licensing issues take a definite back seat).

Mostly.  I believe the community will sacrifice a minor amount of
functionality for a better license to our purposes.

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)

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