David O'Brien wrote: > On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 09:37:16PM -0800, Juli Mallett wrote: > > I've made a note that you don't think my way is optimal. I do, and > > that's that, at this point. No black magic, no convoluted config > > files, etc. Go deal with the ODE config and Mach's configuration > > files, I have. Or NetBSD's. Or OpenBSD's. At this point, I am > > convinced that the platform keyword is the least offensive and most > > productive way of doing all of this, and so on, being someone who > > has worked with more backwards methods, and being the person who > > had to deal with this first, and came up with something that suits > > the two groups who need it most (the pc98 mistake is probably near > > impossible to correct, due to the historical nature), MIPS, and > > PowerPC. > > Juli, you need to convince many more than just yourself that this is a > good approach for something that is so over-reaching and will be > something we *all* have to live with. Right now you don't have much of a > buy-in for this, and we haven't even seen public support for it from > Peter "(the config(8) maintainer)".
I still think a PC98 conversion would be compelling. But in any case, isn't "the first person to a working PPC port" kind of an overriding argument, one way or the other? -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
