Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:59:04 -0600 (MDT) From: Brian Handy <handy@lambic.physics.montana.edu> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> Cc: obrien@NUXI.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATTENTION PLEASE: g77 in base system. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904082056190.19556-100000@lambic.physics.montana.edu> In-Reply-To: <xzp6776d24m.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On 9 Apr 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: >> [4 people said "YES! Add g77!"] >I beg your pardon? You're adding g77 to the system because you know of >four people who would find it useful? Where's the logic in that? Well, statistically speaking, that's a bunch of "ayes" and no "noes". Lots of things happen via implicit acceptance. (I was one of the people who spoke up in favor of this after David mentioned this.) >If you do add it to the base system, make it optional. I don't care if >it defaults to on, as long as I have the option to turn it off. This doesn't seem unreasonable. (I also really like Chuck's idea of adding gcj in the same light.) Happy trails, Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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