general Darwin imports (was Re: Darwin cmd import?)
Edwin Groothuis
edwin at mavetju.org
Sat Jun 5 05:00:14 PDT 2004
On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 09:57:57AM -0400, Michael W. Lucas wrote:
> People may gripe about Apple not returning stuff to the open source
> community. The truth is, they have. They aren't responsible for
> converting what they return into a format we can use, but they haven't
> deliberately obfuscated their code. Sorting out the diffs would be a
> pain, but not horribly difficult.
>
> According to Jordan Hubbard, the best source of low-hanging fruit is
> their modified libc. They've had people work out all sorts of bugs,
> clean up functions, performance improvements, etc. Libc changes
> require extensive testing. They also have wide-reaching benefits.
> It's still BSDL'd, so we can take back whatever we want.
Now the question of course is: where can I find it? It is somewhere
in a CVS repository (that would be nicest), or are it raw sourcefiles
only?
Edwin, now owning a Mac so not really familiar with things
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