[RFC] libdispatch (aka Grand Central Dispatch) in base

[Brooks Davis]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 10:33:58PM -0400, Allan Jude wrote:
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> On 2013-10-29 22:29, Freddie Cash wrote:
> > On Oct 29, 2013 7:21 PM, "Teske, Devin" <Devin.Teske at fisglobal.com> wrote:
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> >> On Oct 29, 2013, at 7:17 PM, Freddie Cash wrote:
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> >>> On Oct 29, 2013 7:07 PM, "Teske, Devin" <Devin.Teske at fisglobal.com>
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> >>>> Hi all,
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> >>>> I'd like to bring up the discussion for topic..
> >>>>
> >>>> Importing libdispatch (aka Apple's Grand Central Dispatch) into base
> > (contrib?).
> >>>
> >>> Hasn't this been done already? There's mention of it in the archives
> > from 2009/2010. There was a port by Robert Watson et al to 8.1
> mentioned in
> > the quarterly status reports, and indications it would be imported after
> > 8.1-release.
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> >> I knew about the port, and I had heard about previous efforts, but when I
> > go
> >> scrounging around HEAD, I can't find it. Let alone older branches.
> >
> > Hrm, maybe it hasn't been imported yet (Google search of
> > svnweb.FreeBSD.orgonly shows the ports branch). And looks like the
> > port hasn't been touched
> > in 2 years.
> >
> > I just remembered reading about it and found the quarterly report in my
> > mail archive.
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> There is a wiki page that provides a bit of information:
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> https://wiki.freebsd.org/GCD
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> But it seeps the last time the port was touched was over 2 years ago

The port was last updated when there was an upstream update...

-- Brooks
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