[RFC] what do we do with picobsd ?
M. Warner Losh
imp at bsdimp.com
Tue Jan 31 12:05:33 PST 2006
In message: <20060131195637.U95776 at fledge.watson.org>
Robert Watson <rwatson at FreeBSD.org> writes:
:
: On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, M. Warner Losh wrote:
:
: > Given how intertwingled picobsd is to the underly OS, I think you are going
: > to have a hard time getting to #3. #2 is fine with me.
:
: My feelings here are pretty much the same -- I'm skeptical about the continued
: ability to maintain PicoBSD outside CVS in a long-term way, given tight
: integration with the source tree. People can and do maintain there own
: versions of FreeBSD releases and wrappers (FreeSBIE is presumably the most
: successful example), but it's a lot of work, and if there's trouble finding
: enough hands for the current PicoBSD, it doesn't seem likely it will get more
: hands somewhere else.
Our company maintains its own release tools that would fall somewhere
between PicoBSD and NanoBSD. We've tried very hard to make them
version independent, but it is a constant struggle.
Warner
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