On Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 02:47:16PM -0800, John VanLoon wrote:
> is for this reason (reliability of new code). I personally feel as if I
> could submit any code to V.Y. and if it was good code that did something
> usefull it would be integerated into the kernel. Please V.Y., correct me if
> I am wrong on this point as I have never submitted new code to you (yet)
> but I do have some to submit soon.
I am thrilled to accept code. I am enormously reluctant to accept code
that either (A) breaks existing applications or (B) adds even minor
delays or size to the required kernel. For (A) if you can't offer backward
compatiblity it better be an incredible advance. For (B) the primary cause
of OS death is creeping featuritis. RTL is designed to allow you to add
components in modules so that other people don't have to pay a performance or
resource price for what they don't need.
Please note that the current RTL distribution contains:
floatingpoint taken from Paolo -- much changed but relying on
his debug
Jerry Epplin's semaphore module
Named fifos contributed by Gavin Peters/Steve Papacharalambous
Of course, GPL software allows anyone to develop their own distribution, but
I will filter changes that go into this distribution to make sure that it
does not turn into Chorus or some similar slow and overweight pile of code.
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