From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 4 14:13:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA28184 for current-outgoing; Mon, 4 Aug 1997 14:13:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA28179 for ; Mon, 4 Aug 1997 14:13:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA04813; Mon, 4 Aug 1997 14:08:20 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199708042108.OAA04813@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Current is currently really a mess (was: Re: Tk/Tcl broken(?)) To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 14:08:20 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De, andreas@klemm.gtn.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <2222.870728419@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Aug 4, 97 02:00:19 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > This is an overly simplistic summary of the situation, however. > > We *do* support the developers, and the very existance of -current > goes quite a bit beyond anything Apple ever did to let developers in > on their plans for future OS technologies. This whole ports thing has > been a tempest in a teapot, and while I don't argue that the ports > collection is useful to developers and users alike, I don't think that > it's tantamount to saying that our support for developers has suddenly > dried up and disappeared because of this one problem in supporting > ports for -current. It was not intended to be representative of the FreeBSD situation; it was simply an observation of "what are the consequences of...", which I thought was abundantly clear from the paragraph where I pegged FreeBSD as being more "middle of the road" than Apple. Speaking of "middle of the road", anyone seen "The Karate Kid" lately? "Karate do yes; okay. Karate do no; okay. Karate do maybe... splut!". Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.