[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: gnumach release
From: |
Marcus Brinkmann |
Subject: |
Re: gnumach release |
Date: |
Tue, 21 Aug 2001 20:19:20 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.3.20i |
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 08:05:36PM +0200, Neal H Walfield wrote:
> > > This seems like a good time for a gnumach-1.3 release. There have been
> > > numerous little bug fixes, driver updates, etc. since 1.2 over two years
> > > ago.
> >
> > Sounds good to me.
> >
> > Is there a good reason not to punt entirely in favor of oskit Mach?
>
> A variety of reasons. To mention a few: it is basically untested;
> there are a lot of bugs; there is no terminal support to speak of.
It doesn't work with a recent oskit. This is a showstopper IMHO.
Among the normal reasons, it's unfeasible to include oskit-mach in Debian
before that works because we would have to fork off the old oskit version in a
seperate package as a build dependency.
Marcus
--
`Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org address@hidden
Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org address@hidden
address@hidden
http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de
Re: gnumach release, Marcus Brinkmann, 2001/08/21