Hi, That cleared more doubts in my mind, and gave me a better understanding of goals of HelenOS and how it can/should be extended.
Thanks again, Vivek Prakash On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 8:42 AM, Martin Decky <[email protected]> wrote: > I will try to port some userland applications very soon and see where it >> goes. Given HelenOS has BSD license, i guess it's preferred to port >> userland application from either NetBSD/FreeBSD or any other BSD flavor. >> Which one does HelenOS community prefer ? >> > > Well, first of all you have to ask yourself the question what should be > the motivation and benefits of porting any particular application from any > other system to HelenOS (compared to writing a HelenOS-specific > implementation from scratch). I mean, we don't see any point in porting the > whole *BSD user space to HelenOS as the MINIX team does. HelenOS does not > strive to be yet another UNIX reimplementation. > > Porting some specific applications might indeed be useful, but in many > cases implementing HelenOS-specific variants from scratch might be a better > idea. It should be really decided on case to case basis. > > Note that the BSD license is not a strict requirement. Each application is > a separate component, thus there is no problem with having applications > covered with different open source licenses (GPL, LGPL, etc.) and being > ported from non-BSD systems (again, if there is a good reason to port the > application in the first place). > > > I am just curious if there is any future plan of switching to Git as SCM ? >> > > No, there is absolutely no reason for switching to Git. We are using > Bazaar which is a distributed version control system perfectly on a par > with Git. > > > M.D. >
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