Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 09:22:04 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>, Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Can we please remove "green@FreeBSD.org" from the version string? Message-ID: <20010809092204.B2619@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <200108090308.f7938Mj63195@green.bikeshed.org>; from green@FreeBSD.ORG on Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 11:08:21PM -0400 References: <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> <200108090308.f7938Mj63195@green.bikeshed.org>
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On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 11:08:21PM -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > Seeing as it's directed people to the right maintainer because of it, so > far... And what happens a year from now when you go to college, get engaged, and generally not have time for FreeBSD? Should people still email you and possibly get a deaf ear? People with problems should send-pr them. > It's not "portable" OpenSSH, and it's not "OpenSSH running on > FreeBSD", so either we need to have a completely new name for it (FreeBSDSSH > or something), or something that is otherwise descriptive to differentiate > it. That is simply silly. Our CVS isn't CVS running on FreeBSD, it is CVS with FreeBSD localisms. Our GCC isn't GCC running on FreeBSD, it is GCC with FreeBSD'ims. Our as, ld, dhclient, GNU tar, GNU grep, etc... Do you suggest we rename all of these so as to "descritiptively differentiate" them? The GCC and GDB developers have asked me to _tweak_ (not rename) the version string to show these have FreeBSD'isms in them. That is all that is needed to show something is "special" about our versions. > It's far removed from being "plain" OpenSSH or "portable" OpenSSH. This the "FreeBSD" added to the version string. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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