Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 09:38:45 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Integration of Net/OpenBSD code (was Re: your mail) Message-ID: <88242.966757125@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 20 Aug 2000 00:22:48 PDT." <Pine.LNX.4.21.0008200017430.15719-100000@zeppo.feral.com>
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In message <Pine.LNX.4.21.0008200017430.15719-100000@zeppo.feral.com>, Matthew Jacob writes: >> In message <200008200303.NAA06295@avalon.reed.wattle.id.au> Darren Reed writes: >> : code that is hard to just "copy". The time it is taking for cardbus >> : to arrive in FreeBSD, when it is already available in NetBSD, is a >> : good example of this. (This is/was Warner Losh's baby, or am I >> : confused ?) I'm *really* disappointed that FreeBSD doesn't (yet ?) >> : support cardbus in 4.x (-current?) :-( >> >> It has become hard to just copy code from one BSD to another. It > >As someone who spends a fair amount of time doing just this, I have to say >that the *BSD's have deviated significantly in many respects. So much so that >very conscious major design choices have to be made to facilitate any kind of >code sharing. I think attempting to keep the *BSD's compatible at the source code level would severely limit out ability to respond to where the market is headed. I can imagine how the jail facility would still be sitting in a "working group" trying to resolve if it should be called "jail" or "gaol". As long as the *BSD's are separate projects, coordination can only happen in the case where it's the same developer in all of the projects. Anything else is just futile dreaming... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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