kim@pvv.ntnu.no writes:
> However, I actually has only one really serious critique of the RiscBSD
> project, and that is the fact that user buildable sources has
> never been sufficiently available, thus stopping lots of users
> from contributing to this project.

As much as I hate to agree with this, it's totally true.

As an example, it took those of us at DEC working on the Shark bits
literally _months_ to assemble a set of sources which could be used to
build the system from scratch.

The main bottlenecks were getting working source for the toolchain
(should have been a no-brainer, given the GPL, and all), and getting
ld.so and related bits in a state that they'd work.


While the state of those things has gotten a bit better (e.g. as far
as I know, the toolchain's in the tree or easily findably now), the
ld.so bits are still in the state where they require a user to go to a
bunch of work to find and apply the patches, only to have them
potentially blown away when next the source is updated...




cgd
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Disclaimer: Not speaking for NetBSD, just expressing my own opinion.