On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 08:32:26PM +0200, Maxim Sobolev scribbled: | "Michael C . Wu" wrote: | > On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 05:57:19PM +0200, Maxim Sobolev scribbled: | > | Motomichi Matsuzaki wrote: | > I think that making this "hack" a russian/xxxfs port and I think | > everyone can be happy. If you want unicode FS like this, perhaps you | > can have a sysutils/unicodefs. :) | No, it's no way a ports- commit. Thank you for the one sentence reply without giving any reasons. As a community, I thought we are supposed to communicate. I have expressed my reasons and ideas, and you return the favor with an one line comment. :) There is nothing wrong with have a port install a KLD, vmware does it. And ports/emulators/linux_base depends on linux.ko. keichii@recursive:/usr/ports$ ls japanese/msdosfs/ Makefile files/ patches.5/ pkg-descr distinfo patches.4/ pkg-comment pkg-plist keichii@recursive:/usr/ports$ ls chinese/big5fs/ Makefile distinfo files/ pkg-comment pkg-descr pkg-plist keichii@recursive:/usr/ports$ cat chinese/big5fs/pkg-descr This port installs two kernel modules, cd9660.ko and msdos.ko, which will let users read Big5 filenames on Joliet and VFAT filesystems. Why do you think we did this? You have admitted that this is an ugly hack. Since when did we allow ugly hacks in the kernel when we can avoid it? Japanese/Chinese chose to do this because we do not want dirty stuff in the kernel. We have had this FS support since 2.2.x. Please understand that we do not want hacks, and we certainly do not want to be reliant on unicode alone. We should never ever assume stuff in I18N, and you are doing exactly this. Have you any idea what this would cause? Do you know how hard it is to remove something after it works for a while? We do NOT ever want to have to do legacy support in the future, because *you* want unicode and you want it now. In addition, this would probably mean laziness in the future to do this support properly. In -SMP, they are avoiding to do hacks to make things work temporarily. Why should I18N do otherwise? You can commit this to work with iconv() after iconv() gets in. I would personally cheer you on. I apologize for any harshness in the emails, it is quite hard to express things without facial expressions. I think we all care about the project a lot. Please be assured that I mean no offense to you. -- +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://peorth.iteration.net/~keichii | Yes, BSD is a conspiracy. | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
