On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 01:13:41AM -0800, Michael Goetze wrote: > I assume there will be some people who will want to port the GNU C library to > Debian */*BSD if it ever becomes successful, anyways. Of course, that will open > a whole new can of worms... but that's in the future. I'm busy with some other projects at the moment, but I'm certainly interested in porting glibc. I know glibc 1 used to run on 4.3BSD and that porting glibc is basically "try to compile glibc and fill in the missing sysdeps." I don't know much about BSD, so I need time to study it if I would do the port. > Now, re BSD vs NetBSD. Ideally, I'd like to see the various BSD components > become interchangeable, e.g. it should be possible to switch from a NetBSD > kernel to an OpenBSD kernel on a running Debian GNU/BSD system (well, after a > reboot). Until we have enough developers to make this feasible, however, we > might as well call it Debian GNU/NetBSD. The other case in which I would call > it just Debian GNU/BSD is if we were to maintain our own BSD Codebase, instead > of just tracking the NetBSD one. Of course, that would get the *BSD folks > screaming bloody murder due to further forking. Forking looks useless to me. I don't know how incompatible the different BSDs are, but if we can hide it in the C library I don't think it will be a really big problem. Jeroen Dekkers -- Jabber supporter - http://www.jabber.org Jabber ID: jdekkers@jabber.org Debian GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org http://www.gnu.org IRC: jeroen@openprojects
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