Re: Thoughts about the Lisp bindings project

2008-06-02 Thread Flávio Cruz
> A little side node: You are regularily using "pretend" in a manner that > doesn't quite fit the context in English, and in fact is quite amusing > :-) Ahah, checked that up on a dictionary, indeed, it's quite amusing ;-) > I don't think it's a good idea to define the interfaces in a completely

Re: Revision control

2008-06-02 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 05:40:29PM -0400, Andrei Barbu wrote: > There's also the fact that moving to something like git is easy [...] > Since it's a rather simple change, aside from the fact that people > would have to learn a new set of commands, which is a few minutes of > work, [...] Unfo

Re: dtrace/systemtap options

2008-06-02 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 01:14:34AM -0400, Andrei Barbu wrote: > SystemTap itself doesn't get to sit in the Linux kernel. Linux exposes > an in-kernel API called kprobes. That allows you to do something like > (conceptually, not real code) set_entry_probe("some_function", myfun), > that will c

Re: Revision control

2008-06-02 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 10:44:08AM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > Due to the optimizations / repacking, git repositories after gc can be > smaller than mercurial ones (especially for binary data it seems to me > from my own tests), but optimizing takes time (and I'm bound to forget > i

Re: Namespace-based translator selection; project details

2008-06-02 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 11:40:09PM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: > On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 6:32 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > However, the matter about ignoring some translators ('-u', for > > > instance) is a bit foggy for me. Do you mean that these should > > > also be symbolic links?

Re: Revision control

2008-06-02 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 11:24:16PM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > [...] but I'd prefer to see the Hurd development more accessible, and > even though there are many good candidates, Mercurial is best suited > for that, at least in my opinion. How accessible it is, depends first and f

Re: GSoC: the plan for the project network virtualization

2008-06-02 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 04:17:37PM +0200, Zheng Da wrote: > step 1. A mechanism for different pfinet servers to communicate with each > other: > There are two possible solutions to reach the goal at least: the BPF > translator and the hypervisor. Right. You never followed up on the discussio