From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9592 invoked by alias); 31 Oct 2006 14:56:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 9583 invoked by uid 22791); 31 Oct 2006 14:56:10 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 14:56:00 +0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k9VEtwrp010133; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 09:55:58 -0500 Received: from pobox.toronto.redhat.com (pobox.toronto.redhat.com [172.16.14.4]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k9VEtwvZ027289; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 09:55:58 -0500 Received: from touchme.toronto.redhat.com (IDENT:postfix@touchme.toronto.redhat.com [172.16.14.9]) by pobox.toronto.redhat.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k9VEtwXC015685; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 09:55:58 -0500 Received: from ton.toronto.redhat.com (ton.toronto.redhat.com [172.16.14.15]) by touchme.toronto.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04730800002; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 09:55:58 -0500 (EST) Received: from ton.toronto.redhat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ton.toronto.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k9VEtvZA023501; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 09:55:57 -0500 Received: (from fche@localhost) by ton.toronto.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id k9VEtvn3023500; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 09:55:57 -0500 Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 14:56:00 -0000 From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" To: Johan Rydberg Cc: sid@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: x86 full system simulation. Message-ID: <20061031145557.GT4978@redhat.com> References: <87u01ky7bn.fsf@gnu.org> <20061031134314.GS4978@redhat.com> <87lkmwy2u9.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87lkmwy2u9.fsf@gnu.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact sid-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: sid-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-q4/txt/msg00009.txt.bz2 Hi - On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 03:30:54PM +0100, Johan Rydberg wrote: > [...] > "several years ago" is "nowdays" when it comes to the development pace > of SID :) Indeed, sid is stable, though Red Hat still undertakes some commercial porting support for it. > [...] Unrelated: Has anyone toyed with the idea of maybe throwing > away mainDynamic+configrun and replacing it with a Python frontend? > [...] ... or lua or something? It's all possible, and not hard to do. (OTOH, disposing of prior front-ends is not necessary unless they are well and truly supplanted.) > I know that SID is somewhat hooked up to tcl, but I won't touch that > with a three hundred meter pole. Well, it wouldn't give you warts, if that's what you worry about. :-) - FChE