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Re: [RFC] what do we do with picobsd ?



In message: <20060131195637.U95776@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
            Robert Watson <rwatson@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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