AW: svn commit: r195200 - in head/usr.sbin: . wake

Robert Watson rwatson at FreeBSD.org
Wed Jul 1 08:58:57 UTC 2009


On Wed, 1 Jul 2009, Blapp, Martin wrote:

> I really was not my or Marcs intention to skip any discussions. Rwatson told 
> us that if we like to see it in 8.0, we need to approve it by RE and commit 
> it before the 1. of july, and that's what I've done. Sorry if I've upset 
> anyone.
>
> Personally I think the tool is quite handy, better than net/wol (which 
> doesn't seem to work with different interfaces), wake doesn't need any 
> strange libaries as dependencies and it just a very short one (4k)
>
> If the concensus is to back it out, I'll back it out.

FWIW, I think having a wake-on-lan tool in the base system is pretty valuable 
-- it's compact, useful, etc.  Making sure we get the right tool, that it has 
the right name, right license, no odd script dependencies, etc, are all 
reasonable concerns, and could have been handled better by addressing them on 
the lists before, rather than after, the commit (Marc's tool meets some but 
not all of these requirements on face value).  That said, I am caught a bit by 
surprise at the level of my response, and was not aware of the NetBSD-side 
discussion...

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge


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