Re: [dev] neatroff

From: Anselm R Garbe <garbeam_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 11:03:13 +0200

On 11 August 2016 at 10:10, FRIGN <dev_AT_frign.de> wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Aug 2016 09:44:45 +0200
> Anselm R Garbe <garbeam_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
>> The stali plan has changed for me a bit during the last year. A couple
>> of months ago I tried to get stali self-bootstrappable based on just
>> src/. I have now given up on this idea for various reasons:
>> [...]
>> Any help is welcome under the new premises above. I think it is kind
>> of a hygene factor to not aim for a self-bootstrappable environment.
>> The beauty is that target platform, not the src/. The src/ is hideous
>> in most parts anyways, if you consider what stali relies on.
>
> I've been wondering for a while what you think the problem is with
> OpenBSD. Wouldn't it make more sense to somehow start an initative in
> OpenBSD to promote static linking there?

I have no problem with OpenBSD per se, but I do think that its scope
is general (server) purpose and that the hardware support in the
embedded non-network space doesn't sound too great to me. linux kernel
+ some dedicated userland is far more flexible imho.

Cheers,
Anselm
Received on Thu Aug 11 2016 - 11:03:13 CEST