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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