From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 12 12:16:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA23877 for current-outgoing; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 12:16:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from gaia.coppe.ufrj.br (cisigw.coppe.ufrj.br [146.164.5.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA23856 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 12:16:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonny@coppe.ufrj.br) Received: (from jonny@localhost) by gaia.coppe.ufrj.br (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA17293; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 18:15:59 -0200 (EDT) (envelope-from jonny) From: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis Message-Id: <199801122015.SAA17293@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br> Subject: Re: Architecture dependent source In-Reply-To: <199801082332.QAA10804@mt.sri.com> from Nate Williams at "Jan 8, 98 04:32:15 pm" To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 18:15:59 -0200 (EDT) Cc: jb@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au, current@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk #define quoting(Nate Williams) // > Has the directory structure for architecture dependent source been // > decided? // > // > For instance, does src/sys/i386 become src/sys/arch/i386 (like NetBSD) // > or do we just start adding src/sys/alpha because i386 sets the precedent? // // Personally, I don't see that '/sys/arch' buys us anything other than // 'Yet Another directory'. Especially when there is no goal of having // every architecture under the sun working. It has the advantage of isolating architectures from other stuff. A ls in the arch dir shows all architectures, and nothing else. I'm not sure, but think it's mostly cosmetic though. Jonny -- Joao Carlos Mendes Luis jonny@gta.ufrj.br +55 21 290-4698 jonny@coppe.ufrj.br Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro UFRJ/COPPE/CISI PGP fingerprint: 29 C0 50 B9 B6 3E 58 F2 83 5F E3 26 BF 0F EA 67