Re: propose: all arch move into a separate dir

On 05.03.2010 14:16, Doug Rabson wrote:
> On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:10:43 +0300, Alex Keda<admin_at_lissyara.su>  wrote:
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>> On 05.03.2010 13:59, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
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>>> In message<4B90E171.2040808_at_lissyara.su>, Alex Keda writes:
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>>>> then can a more correct name of the project or ClosedBSD or
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> ManagedBSD?
>    
>>>> =)
>>>> or something abstract?
>>>>
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>>> You are free to use any other operating system of your choice, if you
>>> are not happy with FreeBSD.
>>>
>>> Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
>>>
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>> I'm not going anywhere, not even hope for it =)
>> I'm trying to make FreeBSD a better, more logical.
>> Maybe that's not very successful, but judging by the number of
>> responses, it hurt many, and made to think even more people.
>>      
> I think you misunderstand. Some of us old-timers have been having this
> discussion repeatedly for well over ten years. It always ends up the same
> way - a re-org might make the source tree marginally prettier but the
> consequences for long-term maintenance and supporting downstream
> contributors outweigh any possible benefit. Having the same conversation
> every two years with the same outcome gets annoying.
>    
how many architectures supported 10 years ago?
Two?
It currently supports 11 or 12 - do not even know for sure.
So make the transfer was 5 times harder.
Let's wait another 10 years, and, coming at last to understand that this 
must be done, and do it was 20  times harder.