On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Balazs Komuves<[email protected]> wrote:

> I updated the executable-path library on Hackage and also the darcs repo at
> my homepage.
> It should now work on FreeBSD, both old and new versions, though of course I
> didn't test it
> on different versions... It should also work on other flavours of BSD, but
> that is untested, too.

Thanks again for your help!

> I cannot help but note that this was an extremely unpleasant experience for
> me. I had good
> memories about FreeBSD from 10+ years ago, but now, in 2009, the installer
> is very buggy,
> the whole system a feel like it came straight from the 70s, the the
> virtualization did not work
> (of course, that was probably not FreeBSD's error, but it contributed a lot
> to the bad experience),
> the documentation of the kernel sysctl calls is non-existing, the vim
> package also feels like
> straight from the 70s, bash is not installed by default (that's quite a wtf
> on a system which
> weights 200 megabytes compressed), etc etc
>
> I don't think I will do it again if next week somebody comes and tells me
> that it does not
> work on his Solaris / OpenSTEP / AmigaOS / whatever box. This should be part
> of the
> standard library anyway, I find it quite bizarre that they omitted it
> intentionally.

I'm quoting this so it will remain archived in the group.

Jeff Wheeler

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