From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 30 8:24: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0C6937B401; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 08:24:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from newton.issci.ca (mail.acns.ab.ca [142.179.151.95]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3660B43E42; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 08:24:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from davidc@newton.issci.ca) Received: from newton.issci.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by newton.issci.ca (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g9UGNr6Y059280; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 09:23:53 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from davidc@newton.issci.ca) Received: (from davidc@localhost) by newton.issci.ca (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g9UGNrEX059279; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 09:23:53 -0700 (MST) Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 09:23:53 -0700 From: Chad David To: "David O'Brien" Cc: Terry Lambert , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Objective-C threads Message-ID: <20021030092353.D58476@newton.issci.ca> Mail-Followup-To: David O'Brien , Terry Lambert , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20021029190941.A43525@newton.issci.ca> <3DBF4C35.B554A7C1@mindspring.com> <20021029211322.B45337@newton.issci.ca> <3DBF8FD8.A68747D8@mindspring.com> <20021030101943.GB80447@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20021030101943.GB80447@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@FreeBSD.ORG on Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 02:19:43AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 02:19:43AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 11:52:56PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > > That said, if you want to make it work for you, I'm behind you > > 100%: I think any changes you want to make are OK; they can > > always be backed out, if anyone starts complaining about them > > breaking things, so I think it's kind of silly for you to ask > > for permission to maintain something no one else is maintaining. > > Perhaps because maintaining them in the FreeBSD repo might be the wrong > place. To answer your other questiion -- because a change to fix one > thing for one person might break things for 10 others. > Which brings us back to my original question... why are ObjC threads disabled? I don't much care about my other patches, I just want to know who the 10 others are who will break if we enable threads, and how to fix that breakage. My minor patches were only posted because you asked :). I do have other patches for thr-posix, but I agree that it would be better if they went to gcc, and didn't get stacked locally. -- Chad David davidc@issci.ca www.FreeBSD.org davidc@freebsd.org ISSci Inc. Calgary, Alberta Canada To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message