Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 15:55:16 -0300 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <daniel.sobral@tcoip.com.br> To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Daniel Capo Sobral <dcs@tcoip.com.br>, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>, dcs@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: ACPI CHANGES AFFECTING MOST -CURRENT USERS Message-ID: <3B967514.1040508@tcoip.com.br> References: <200109032330.f83NU9n02241@mass.dis.org> <200109041248.f84CmOa21358@mail.tcoip.com.br> <20010905092840.B96880@dragon.nuxi.com>
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David O'Brien wrote: > On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 09:48:24AM -0300, Daniel Capo Sobral wrote: > >>When I first wrote the loader.conf thingy, I couldn't get the value >>of environment variables from the FICL environment. >> > ... > >>Anyway, I have been too busy lately to do anything with FreeBSD that >>is not directly related to things I have to do at work, and it doesn't >>look like slacking up so soon. So, unfortunately, I don't have time to >>do any of the little things that have been cropping up with loader. >> > > A very good reason the loader should have used something other then a > language only 1% of the FreeBSD committers (and entire community) has > knowledge of. /me shrugs I myself questioned the wisdom of using Forth at the time, and Jordan simply replied I was free to find a more popular language with a freely available interpreter that would fit in as small a space as FICL did. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) Daniel.Sobral@tcoip.com.br dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@notorious.bsdconspiracy.net True leadership is the art of changing a group from what it is to what it ought to be. -- Virginia Allan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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