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Date:      Mon, 24 Jun 1996 19:10:06 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users)
Subject:   Re: tcl -- what's going on here. 
Message-ID:  <199606250110.TAA29369@rover.village.org>

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Having just read all of this discussion, and trying to avoid the
inflamitory parts (or at least not post immediate flames or
counterflams) it strikes me that no one has mentioned, that I could
see, what OpenBSD has done on this.  I know that this group may have
political problems associated with it, but they have written
bmakefiles that encapsolate the ones provided by the vendors.  I don't
know if they are good or bad, but they claim to be able to drop in new
releases fairly easily with that scheme.  I'm currently pulling over
most of the sources for their system (I've up til now only had the
kernel sources online because I want a working MIPS port and the
active MIPS porter lives in the OpenBSD camp, but that's another
story).  It is unclear to me if this system had its base in the NetBSD
part of OpenBSD or not.  I certainly intend no slander if that is
indeed the case.  I don't have a NetBSD source distribution online,
nor access to enough of the revision history to know for sure.

So why has no one talked about this system?  If there is any interest
after this week-long thread for a better summary so that it can be
talked about intellegently, I'd be happy to provide one.  Or did I
just miss it when slogging thought my email?  It seems like a tool
that the FreeBSD community could profit from.

Just my two cents.

Warner

(Whew!  And no flames.  Boy, that was hard!  And no discussion of the
 merits of inclusion of TCL on the core distribution either, that was
 even harder...)



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