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Date:      Thu, 02 Sep 1999 23:14:53 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
Cc:        Ross Harvey <ross@teraflop.com>, freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org, core@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Status of FBSD sparc porting? 
Message-ID:  <3007.936306893@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Sep 1999 14:07:18 PDT." <60435.936306438@localhost> 

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In message <60435.936306438@localhost>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes:

>I think I speak for all of us when I say that we respect what NetBSD
>has done in porting BSD to every platform under the sun (no pun
>intended) and we'd never judge an entire architecture port simply
>based on a new and experimental installer.

Having myself co-written an installer with Jordan, I can only
agree fully.

Writing installers is a LOT harder than people may think and they
are so special that judging the entire system on its install process
is impossible to do, and stupid if attempted.

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!


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