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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Yi development mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/yi-devel -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
