From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 29 19:47:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA27964 for current-outgoing; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 19:47:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sendero.simon-shapiro.org (sendero-fxp0.Simon-Shapiro.ORG [206.190.148.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA27959 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 19:47:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shimon@sendero-fxp0.simon-shapiro.org) Received: (qmail 9966 invoked by uid 1000); 30 Jan 1998 03:55:39 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3-alpha-011998 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199801290050.RAA25513@usr08.primenet.com> Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 19:55:39 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Organization: The Simon Shapiro Foundation From: Simon Shapiro To: Terry Lambert Subject: Re: gnu/usr.bin/cvs/libdiff Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, rcarter@consys.com, (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe current" On 29-Jan-98 Terry Lambert wrote: >> > familiar to pure software engineers. As far as a product goes, >> > an operating system is peanuts compared to something like >> > a ship, say. Or even a car, these days. Somehow, those get >> > built. >> >> W/out any user intevention? Amazing how it requires users to build >> them, isn't it? Yes, it *could* all be automated, but the 'resources' >> required to do it is greater than requiring humans doing the work. Now, >> in a weird twist of fate, that is exactly the same thing I said. > > Actually, the factory where NeXT machines were built was sufficiently > automated that it could produce 30,000 units a month, and required > only two people to run it. It is currently still used to make laser > printers. > >> ps. Yes, given enough time and resources, anything can be automated. >> But, the end result may be more expensive than is worthwhile. Now, I >> wouldn't have any ideas on that given that I work for one of the three >> largest R&D companies in the world, who come up with all sort of >> wonderful (and often times quite expensive) solutions to existing and >> some non-existant problems. :) > > The easiet fix would be to have .depend depn on Makefile, wouldn't it? Probably. But I am still learning how to read Makefiles :-) ---------- Sincerely Yours, Simon Shapiro Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG Voice: 503.799.2313