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On Jul 31, 2006, at 1:32 PM, Rogier Krieger wrote:
On 7/31/06, R. Tyler Ballance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Jeeez, talk about an overreaction to the suggestion. [...] It's
not that far
fetched of an idea
Given the times that this question popped up in the archives, Mickey's
reaction isn't too surprising. From the past discussions, I gather
that a change of compiler would be a massive job, regardless of the
compiler changed to.
That said, I'll happily admit that I didn't make a time estimate
for the job.
I don't have any doubts whatsoever about that, GCC has been around
almost as long as I have, and I'd still say it's got a lot of work to
be done (when compared to proprietary compilers, but it's price tag
and open source code still makes it my choice).
"OpenSSH is a derivative of the original free ssh 1.2.12 release from
Tatu Ylvnen. This version was the last one which was free enough for
reuse by our project."
Good point, I did forget that OpenSSH wasn't exactly from scratch, as
of now there aren't really any decent alternatives to pick up
appropriately licensed source code from to start an OpenCC project
from (for example).
[...] but I'm certain it'd just take a few talented individuals
with spare
time to really get it [TeNDRA] going again.
The above does not include the work done on actually obtaining a
compiler desired. Be it from scratch or by working on existing code, I
recommend to be careful whose spare time you volunteer.
You're the second person to make this allusion that I am some PHB
spending other people's time, I was merely making the argument that
it only takes a few talented individuals to get a snowball project
going that would be capable of picking up speed as more people
contributed to it. While it would be a massive undertaking, I still
think a project like this would carry merit, and would definitely
carry my support (I am absolutely no good with grammars so my support
would be more evangelical ;)).
Then again, given the amount of time that it would take to make a new
_decent_ compiler, I'd say efforts would be best spent bribing some
of those Plan9 guys into releasing their compilers under a BSD
license ;)
Cheers,
- -R. Tyler Ballance
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