[1970] in NetBSD-Development
Re: athena imports
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan J. Williams)
Fri Sep 15 21:32:46 2000
To: Mike Whitson <mwhitson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: sipb-athena@MIT.EDU, ducks@MIT.EDU
From: nathanw@MIT.EDU (Nathan J. Williams)
Date: 15 Sep 2000 21:32:41 -0400
In-Reply-To: Mike Whitson's message of "15 Sep 2000 20:34:44 -0400"
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Mike Whitson <mwhitson@MIT.EDU> writes:
> Nathan, I've been waiting for your go-ahead for a very long time to do
> an import of the Athena mainline into sipb-athena, because there was a
> bunch of code imported from the 8.3 athena release branch onto the
> sipb-athena mainline, making further imports from the athena mainline
> impractical. In particular, I was waiting on that to be able to do a
> bunch of updates for the D/UX port, since my work (against the athena
> mainline) was based on a section of the repository after the 8.3
> branch, and it would have been really annoying to backport my work).
> Since Athena 8.3 has come and gone, unless someone gives me a really
> good reason why I shouldn't, I'm going to start working on doing
> another import from the athena mainline sometime next week, with an
> eye towards getting something 8.4ish out the door sometime this year
> based on people's interest and time.
I didn't realize you were still interested in this.
I've abandoned sipb-athena stuff entirely. I think it's totally dead
for NetBSD, and I/S has taken over all of the linux work.
Go nuts. Have at it.
- Nathan
