From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 9 19: 5:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEB1C37B404 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 19:05:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from astro.phpwebhosting.com (astro.phpwebhosting.com [66.33.60.221]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0AC7E43E6A for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 19:05:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from howardjp@well.com) Received: (qmail 15989 invoked by uid 508); 10 Oct 2002 02:05:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO wopr) (208.59.106.230) by astro.phpwebhosting.com with SMTP; 10 Oct 2002 02:05:40 -0000 Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 22:05:41 -0400 Subject: Re: src/games bikeshed time. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v482) Cc: Kris Kennaway , Eric Melville , Mark Murray , current@FreeBSD.ORG To: James Howard From: James Howard In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.482) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As a quick follow up, the PR database shows between fifteen and twenty PRs relating to src/games. Also, if this happened, should fortune be treated differently and moved into src/usr.bin? Or should it become a port? Jamie On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 09:58 PM, James Howard wrote: > So if someone were willing to take over the lot and manage them as > Ports, > how would anyone feel about this? > > FreeGrep uses the FreeBSD build style and is easily a Port. I could > Port-ify the entire directory in, say, two days. Anyone interested? > > Jamie > > On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 09:41 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: > >> On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 04:27:15PM -0700, Eric Melville wrote: >>>> The current flare-up over src/games/wargames reminds me that we are >>>> carrying a bunch of Really Old Stuff in usr/games/. >>>> >>>> Yes folks, its that time of the year. >>>> >>>> I ask myself, "why are we wasting ``make world'' time and install >>>> bandwidth on 1970's-era games?". >>>> >>>> Some folks will answer "tradition". This argument holds little >>>> water. Programs come and go, and there is no firm reference or >>>> agreement >>>> as to what is "really traditional". This agument can be used to >>>> import >>>> emacs on the grounds that it is documented in the O'Reilly BSD 4.4 >>>> books. >>> >>> I'm all for moving them to the projects directory in cvs, that seemed >>> like >>> a good solution for sccs. >> >> Well, that's only useful if it's actually a project, i.e. if people >> plan to develop them. Since that hasn't happened for most of the >> games in /usr/games over the lifetime of FreeBSD it's not likely this >> is about to change. >> >> Kris >> > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message