Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 21:58:25 -0400 From: James Howard <howardjp@well.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Eric Melville <eric@FreeBSD.ORG>, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: src/games bikeshed time. Message-ID: <C310A4CC-DBF3-11D6-8BA8-003065BAAC62@well.com> In-Reply-To: <20021010014103.GA348@xor.obsecurity.org>
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So if someone were willing to take over the lot and manage them as Ports, how would anyone feel about this? FreeGrep uses the FreeBSD build style and is easily a Port. I could Port-ify the entire directory in, say, two days. Anyone interested? Jamie On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 09:41 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 04:27:15PM -0700, Eric Melville wrote: >>> The current flare-up over src/games/wargames reminds me that we are >>> carrying a bunch of Really Old Stuff in usr/games/. >>> >>> Yes folks, its that time of the year. >>> >>> I ask myself, "why are we wasting ``make world'' time and install >>> bandwidth on 1970's-era games?". >>> >>> Some folks will answer "tradition". This argument holds little >>> water. Programs come and go, and there is no firm reference or >>> agreement >>> as to what is "really traditional". This agument can be used to import >>> emacs on the grounds that it is documented in the O'Reilly BSD 4.4 >>> books. >> >> I'm all for moving them to the projects directory in cvs, that seemed >> like >> a good solution for sccs. > > Well, that's only useful if it's actually a project, i.e. if people > plan to develop them. Since that hasn't happened for most of the > games in /usr/games over the lifetime of FreeBSD it's not likely this > is about to change. > > Kris > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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