Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:46:21 -0700 From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> Cc: arch@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tmux(1) in base Message-ID: <20090921154621.GA24208@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20090921112657.GW95398@hoeg.nl> References: <20090921112657.GW95398@hoeg.nl>
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On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 01:26:57PM +0200, Ed Schouten wrote: > Hi all, > > At the DevSummit in Cambridge we briefly discussed including tmux(1) in > the base system. We recently had window(1) there, but unfortunately > window(1) was a very limited tool, compared to tools like screen(1) and > tmux(1). Why tmux(1) and not screen(1)? Well, simple. The first has a > better license and very active maintenance. > > I was talking with the author on IRC the other day and it seemed like I > spoke with him at a fortunate moment, because he was just about to > release version 1.0. I think it would be nice to import this into HEAD, > which means FreeBSD 9.0 (maybe 8.1?) will include it by default. > > How to test tmux in base: > > - Download this tarball and extract it to contrib/tmux: > http://downloads.sourceforge.net/tmux/tmux-1.0.tar.gz > - Apply the following patch: > http://80386.nl/pub/tmux.diff > > Comments? > I've used FreeBSD since it was known as 386bsd+patchkit. In that time, I've used window/screen exactly zero times. IMHO, neither screen nor tmux should be in the base system. These are easily installed from the Ports Collection. -- Steve
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