In message: <20090119165030.ga18...@dragon.nuxi.org> "David O'Brien" <obr...@freebsd.org> writes: : On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 02:00:55PM +0000, Robert Watson wrote: : > : > On Sat, 17 Jan 2009, Stanislav Sedov wrote: : > : >> Was this discussed somewhere? I don't understand why we should restrict : >> our filesystem naming because of limitation of auxilary filesystems. : >> There're even more restrictive filesystems available, we couldn't support : >> them all. While previous modifications looked harmless this one seems : >> questionable to me. : >> : >> I understand, this is a bikesched, but I really don't see a reason. You : >> can't build FreeBSD on windows anyway. : > : > Many of us would *very* much like to be able to cross-build FreeBSD from : > both Windows and Mac OS X, which would be highly desirable for embedded : > systems and appliance shops. : : Run VMware. Seriously. Or raise a serious discussion on developers@ : about this and get conciseness that cross building on MacOS X and : MS-Windows is a goal.
I've tried this on my mac. It doesn't work very well at all, and it a pita for file sharing. Since there's little harm, and much benefit, why argue? Warner _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"