Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 03:04:51 -0500 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@sneakerz.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Mike Heffner <mheffner@vt.edu>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, obrien@freebsd.org, Luke Mewburn <lukem@wasabisystems.com> Subject: Re: BSD-specific sources (was: Importing lukemftpd) Message-ID: <20010718030451.G28164@sneakerz.org> In-Reply-To: <20010718172357.Q69861@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from grog@FreeBSD.org on Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 05:23:57PM %2B0930 References: <XFMail.20010716212454.mheffner@novacoxmail.com> <20010718172357.Q69861@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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* Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> [010718 02:54] wrote: > > Well, interestingly enough, Luke and I were talking about cooperation > between the NetBSD and FreeBSD projects just over last weekend, and > one of the things that we decided was that it would be desirable to > add a new category of software to our source trees, software that is > used by all BSDs (well, within our terms of reference, NetBSD and > FreeBSD anyway). We didn't specifically mention his ftpd: we were > thinking more of things like USB support. The idea would be that we > might have a separate part of the source tree, like /usr/src//contrib, > which is maintained either by a group of people, or (preferably) one > person who ensures that it runs on all BSD platforms. The latter > might be difficult to implement, especially for kernel code, and even > for userland code there would be challenges. I've got a whole lot > more to say on the matter, but I'm sure that people will find a number > of weaknesses in my suggestions. Feel free to pick holes in the idea. Actually, I'd love to see this happen, not only with kernel, but with ftpd, openssh, and a bunch of "no-brainers" we could standardize on. Not only would this help with feature sharing, but we could eventually have our own meta _really_ free software system. We could call it 'SNV' - SNV is Not Viral. Look, it's recursive! -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] Ok, who wrote this damn function called '??'? And why do my programs keep crashing in it? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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