From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Aug 8 7:54:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wrs.com (unknown-1-11.windriver.com [147.11.1.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3765B37B40A for ; Wed, 8 Aug 2001 07:54:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@[147.11.46.201]) by mail.wrs.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id HAA17981; Wed, 8 Aug 2001 07:53:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20010807215153.B9801@widomaker.com> Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 07:53:58 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: Charles Shannon Hendrix Subject: Re: time to step up to the SMP plate? Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 08-Aug-01 Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote: >> Hopefully, Open Source will be able to overcome its inherit >> handicaps; it may be that FreeBSD switches to using Perforce, or >> some other tool that gets rid of the "One True Head Branch" >> phenomenon, despite the commercial use pain that such a switch >> would entail (P4 is free for Open Source, but not for commercial >> companies tracking an Open Source project, whose repository is >> only available in P4). > > I would worry about committing to a tool that may or may not remain free > in the future. It would be better to come up with an open solution. Have you _used_ p4? :) It makes working on WIP's that aren't in HEAD yet _much_ easier. We've already got a p4 branch for the KSE work, and another one for SMPng work that isn't committed yet. If you want to rewrite p4, go for it, but it would take you a long time to do it. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message