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Date:      Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:22:56 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        src-committers@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, ed@FreeBSD.org, stas@FreeBSD.org, rwatson@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r187332 - head/tools/regression/usr.bin/jot
Message-ID:  <20090120012256.GB29741@dragon.NUXI.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090119.181435.-298663465.imp@bsdimp.com>
References:  <20090117142021.92d5a40b.stas@FreeBSD.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0901171359250.41192@fledge.watson.org> <20090119165030.GA18409@dragon.NUXI.org> <20090119.181435.-298663465.imp@bsdimp.com>

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On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 06:14:35PM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <20090119165030.GA18409@dragon.NUXI.org>
>             "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> : On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 02:00:55PM +0000, Robert Watson wrote:
> : > 
> : > On Sat, 17 Jan 2009, Stanislav Sedov wrote:
> : > 
> : >> Was this discussed somewhere? I don't understand why we should restrict 
> : >> our filesystem naming because of limitation of auxilary filesystems. 
> : >> There're even more restrictive filesystems available, we couldn't support 
> : >> them all. While previous modifications looked harmless this one seems 
> : >> questionable to me.
> : >> 
> : >> I understand, this is a bikesched, but I really don't see a reason. You 
> : >> can't build FreeBSD on windows anyway.
> : > 
> : > Many of us would *very* much like to be able to cross-build FreeBSD from 
> : > both Windows and Mac OS X, which would be highly desirable for embedded 
> : > systems and appliance shops.
> : 
> : Run VMware.  Seriously.  Or raise a serious discussion on developers@
> : about this and get conciseness that cross building on MacOS X and
> : MS-Windows is a goal.
> 
> I've tried this on my mac.  It doesn't work very well at all, and it a
> pita for file sharing.

Sorry - I don't quite follow.  What is "it"?

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



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