On Fri, 11 Oct 1996 11:07:41 -0700 
 "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> wrote:

 > > into FreeBSD, which I think is good.  I don't think my changes to the
 > > Message Digest stuff have been committed to FreeBSD yet, which is too
 > > bad; those changes are absolutely necessary for md[45] to work on
 > > 64-bit systems.
 > 
 > I think that's more oversight than anything - do you have a PR#?

FreeBSD PR # bin/1648.

 > Well, now wait.  I remember the comments that were generated and
 > "considerable resistance" is not even close to what I'd call the small
 > debate we had - you want to see "considerable resistance" and I can
 > show you some transcripts of earlier debates that went on concerning
 > the merging of the various *BSD groups. :-) I remember some
 > discussion, a minor degree of push-back, some compromise solutions
 > being floated which _seemed_ to be more than acceptable to all
 > concerned, then silence.  I honestly perceived it to be apathy rather
 > than antipathy which was bogging this down until you spoke up here.

Yah, I apologize for my tone in the last mail... I certainly didn't
mean to be as harsh as I was, and I can see your point of view...

In any case...

 > their ARCH stuff is better than your ARCH stuff.  Let's just get some
 > concensus on the friggin' ARCH stuff and work with Satoshi [the
 > FreeBSD portsmeister, for those who don't know the name] in getting it
 > committed.  He's a reasonable guy, and you don't _need_ concensus from
 > everyone in FreeBSD-ports so much as you simply need it from him.
 > He's already said that he'd be happy with anything which doesn't make
 > his job harder.

I'll see if I can scare up some time this weekend.

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