Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 23:40:57 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com> To: "Jeffrey S. Sharp" <jss@subatomix.com> Cc: freebsd-small <freebsd-small@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Progress on TinyBSD make-based build Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0005112336000.12462-100000@mx.webgiro.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005111359510.63081-100000@lepton.subatomix.com>
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On Thu, 11 May 2000, Jeffrey S. Sharp wrote: > It's taken me a little longer than I expected, but I have finished a beta > version of the TinyBSD Development Kit, complete with all the original > features that I wanted to put in. I haven't looked into the features that > people have suggested, but I plan to at some point. Once I write some > documentation, I will make a release it somewhere for cheers and jeers > (hopefully more of the former :). Where can I download the code? > It's not really a huge deal; it's pretty much just a Makefile, a script, a > directory tree, and some sample conf files. The Makefile is softlinked > throughout the directory tree and serves as the user interface to the > build system. The script, named 'config', takes conf files and generates > a set of makefiles that do the actual work of building a distribution. > > Like I predicted, I did not have ample time to worry about extraneous > testing for error conditions. Thus, it is incredibly easy to screw > something up and get no more feedback than a failed make. More work needs > to be done in that area. > > Also, I'm not quite up the super-guru level that a lot of you are. Making > this thing go has been very educational for me, but I'm sure there are a > few boneheaded things still left in there as a result of my > non-guru-ness. A second result is that I'm not really sure what the best > method of release is. What should I do? Put a tarball up on a web site > somewhere? Start a CVS server (overkill?)? Try to set up a project at sourceforge.net? Andrzej Bialecki // <abial@webgiro.com> WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) // ------------------------------------------------------------------- // ------ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org -------- // --- Small & Embedded FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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