From owner-freebsd-current Thu May 16 23:20:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA18377 for current-outgoing; Thu, 16 May 1996 23:20:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA18359; Thu, 16 May 1996 23:19:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id XAA17489 ; Thu, 16 May 1996 23:19:49 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id PAA10859; Fri, 17 May 1996 15:56:56 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199605170626.PAA10859@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Standard Shipping Containers - A Proposal for Distributing FreeBSD To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 15:56:56 +0930 (CST) Cc: nate@sri.MT.net, rkw@dataplex.net, hackers@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199605170421.WAA06771@rover.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at May 16, 96 10:21:33 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Warner Losh stands accused of saying: > apply it, so it is no muss, no fuss. Easily more up to date that sup > ever was for me. I resisted for a long time going to ctm because I > thought it wouldn't give me the access that sup gave me. It has > worked 1000% better than sup ever did for me. This is usually > sufficient because relatively little changes in any given four hour > period. All this discussion is telling us is that there are several different ways by which FreeBSD source code is distributed, and each of these different ways works well for different people. What's wrong with things as they are? Why should anyone feel compelled to change things if they're not broken? > Warner -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[