Re: Amiga RDB

Ingo Weinhold <bonefish-CFLBMwTPW48UNGrzBIF7/[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Axel Dörfler wrote:
[driver_settings enhancements]
> > Hm... I could try to do that tomorrow, but if I don't find the 
> > time,
> > feel free to do it.
> I guess, I'll reach the point, where I need it (well, `need' is not
> exactly correct, since it would be possible to leave the parameter 
> stuff
> out for scanning, but it would be nice to have it, for that part 
> could be
> completed then) Friday or on the weekend at the latest. So, if you 
> haven't
> done it till then, I'll just go ahead and implement it.

Fair enough - but I'll try to be faster than you this one time :-)

> > But it should probably be moved from kernel/core to kernel/libroot/
> > os/
> > right?
> It will be needed in both kernel- and userland, and unless I'm 
> mistaken,
> the kernel is not supposed to access libroot, is it? So, it has to be
> compiled and linked into both, and, I think, it doesn't make much
> difference where the sources are located, then.

For the build yes, but for the cleanliness of the tree, I would rather 
have it in libroot. The kernel doesn't link against the whole libroot, 
but statically against parts of it.
I wanted place every Posix like calls under libroot/posix usable by 
both, and the OS specific stuff in libroot/os - also usable by both 
parties.
In fact, many files are already used in this way.

> > Maybe we want to wait with that move until we have our own 
> > repository,
> > though, to not lose any changes information.
> Have I missed something? Have the plans to move to an own server 
> become
> more concrete? I thought, it was agreed on leaving the repository at 
> SF
> for the time being, perhaps do mirror it at our site, and decide 
> later on
> whether or not to move it.

I thought we would do that some day. But maybe it's still far away in 
the future.

> However, as SF provides a CVS tarball, we wouldn't lose any version 
> info,
> if we would move, anyway.

True - even if it's in the attic it's still there :-)
Maybe I will just move it then before doing any changes. We might want 
to recompile it with different capabilities though at a later time.

Adios...
   Axel.