Re: Darwin softwareupdate?

*Snip my blah blah blah*

>If you would like Apple to change its build system, open source
>model, and the technologies it uses, I suggest directing your
>comments to Apple.

You know their policy on this. Every few year they put up suggestion 
pages ("Tell Steve Jobs" of 1999 comes to mind) and they they 
promptly pull them because of the liability of implementing a user's 
idea as that user may sue them - despite their pleading to implement 
the idea.

>   You can try filing bugs if you like.
>We here at opendarwin have very little influence over what
>Apple does or doesn't do.

My point remains that both Darwin and Mac OS X contain the standard 
BSD build scripts in /usr/share/mk that do not appear to be used. Go 
check. Perhaps I am wrong and they do play an integral role.

I accept that the OpenDarwin project does not have any say over Apple 
and apologies if I suggested otherwise. I recall however that the 
OpenDarwin web site said that a some Apple employees participate on 
OpenDarwin. I will not speculate on the flow of ideas but I do assume 
the same rules that take down suggestion pages apply.

Thank you all who have addressed my building Darwin questions.

Best regards,

Michael Dexter