Re: Release Team's Almost-Final Modules List



On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 06:23, Carlos Garnacho Parro wrote:
> Hi mark :-),
> 
> <snip>
> 
> >
> > What problems have you been having porting them? Maybe somone here can
> > help. Have you tried porting the backends? I'm told that they're pretty
> > self explanitory, and from looking at the backend scripts I'd agree. I
> > don't have a clue how different BSD's layout is to linux but it can't be
> > impossible. If you have trouble maybe should should main
> > setup-tool-hackers lists ximian com ....
> >
> 
> IMHO the biggest problem we have is the BSD init, but I think that it can
> be abstracted to the almost the same concept than sysV (starting and
> stopping services) in fact, I'm adding now support for file-rc and it can
> be translated perfectly to the same XML (and gentoo init should follow the
> same way)

It's not init per se that was the problem.  It's things like the
partitions code.  FreeBSD uses fdisk, not sfdisk, and fdisk -s only
prints partition info for the first BIOS disk.  Therefore, in order to
emulate the Linux behavior, I will have to walk all possible disk
devices, and determine what the system has.  This isn't complicated, I
just wondered what the best way was to integrate that into the current
design.  Carlos helped to clarify that for me.

The other contention I had was reliance on the proc file system.  Carlos
said that I should bother with those modules since they're not
up-to-date.  It's mainly going to be an issue of time, but it can be
done.

Joe

> 
> (and anyways, slackware uses BSD init too, and is planned to be fully
> supported)
> 
> <snip>
> 
> >
> > I think that this is always an important factor, but due to the unique
> > nature of the gst I think it's less important than usual. The fact is
> > the gst are designed to be ported, the porting just isn't finished yet.
> > The user tool already has support for freebsd 4 and 5 AFAICT. What they
> > really needs is some interest so that they will get ported further.
> > Which is what I think will happen if they are included.
> >
> > There are also a lot of linuxes that aren't supported, and we will never
> > support them all, but if we aren't happy with that then we shouldn't
> > ship them at all.
> 
> OTOH, there are lots of distros that are based on other distros that are
> already supported, so adding them would suppose minimum changes to GST :-)
> 
> For further information about the supported distros, I suggest to visit
> http://www.gnome.org/projects/gst/distros.php, It's a bit outdated, and
> there have been a few additions (such as PLD linux) and distro updates,
> but its orientative enough.
> 
> 	Regards
> 
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Joe Marcus Clarke
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