Xref: utzoo comp.os.coherent:232 comp.os.minix:16105 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!rutgers!njin!uupsi!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent,comp.os.minix Subject: Re: comp.sources.small-unix? (Re: Is posting srcs/bins OK here?) Keywords: V7 sources Message-ID: Date: 27 Apr 91 16:48:45 GMT References: <1991Apr22.060838.28918@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <694@tivoli.UUCP> <.PYASIC@xds13.ferranti.com> <9802@star.cs.vu.nl> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 26 In article <9802@star.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes: > In article <.PYASIC@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > >Perhaps a balance could be struck here between people who want their > >traditional channels of information to remain intact, the people who want > >to snarf code, and so on. A common small-unix sources group. > I bet it won't work. MINIX is currently in a funny state, somewhere > part way between V7 and P1003.1. Coherent is probably in a difference > place. I suspect that programs that work on one won't work on the other > so easily. That's what porting is all about. But MINIX-PC and coherent have similar limitations, and MINIX programs are mostly designed to run on MINIX-PC as well as the 68000 MINIXes. At least they're likely to be easier to port between than (say) Minix and BSD. > Also, the idea of comp.os.minix.code or whatever it may be called if it > passes will be mostly patches, not whole programs. Well, until I get some better info on the mailing list situation I'm not starting the votes on a pure-minix sources group. It's pretty much in limbo. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' peter@ferranti.com +1 713 274 5180. 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"