RFC: "Crochet" build tool

[Jim Thompson]

On Mar 26, 2013, at 3:08 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 26 March 2013 12:58, Jim Thompson <jim at netgate.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On Mar 26, 2013, at 2:38 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> These aren't unsolvable problems. :-)
>> 
>> No, but none of them currently exist for non-x86 platforms, either.
> 
> Right.
> 
> And the flipside is that people may actually benefit from having the
> embedded view of things enforced for atom appliance builds. You may
> not _want_ to have a full FreeBSD install on some small atom
> appliance.

Atom?  I ship a few hundred Geode systems / month with nanobsd on-board.  A proper embedded environment would be a revaluation. 

By the time people move up to Atom, they're making noise about 4GB of ram, SSDs and SATA drives.

> Anyway, it's desperately waiting for someone to make happen.

Agreed.