Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 14:08:20 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: terry@lambert.org, helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De, andreas@klemm.gtn.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Current is currently really a mess (was: Re: Tk/Tcl broken(?)) Message-ID: <199708042108.OAA04813@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <2222.870728419@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Aug 4, 97 02:00:19 pm
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> This is an overly simplistic summary of the situation, however. > > We *do* support the developers, and the very existance of -current > goes quite a bit beyond anything Apple ever did to let developers in > on their plans for future OS technologies. This whole ports thing has > been a tempest in a teapot, and while I don't argue that the ports > collection is useful to developers and users alike, I don't think that > it's tantamount to saying that our support for developers has suddenly > dried up and disappeared because of this one problem in supporting > ports for -current. It was not intended to be representative of the FreeBSD situation; it was simply an observation of "what are the consequences of...", which I thought was abundantly clear from the paragraph where I pegged FreeBSD as being more "middle of the road" than Apple. Speaking of "middle of the road", anyone seen "The Karate Kid" lately? "Karate do yes; okay. Karate do no; okay. Karate do maybe... splut!". Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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