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OpenDarwin Project Shutting Down

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hard-to-hit-a-moving-target dept.

niabok writes "According to a message sent by Rob Braun to the OpenDarwin mailing lists, the OpenDarwin project will be shutting down, saying that 'OpenDarwin has failed to achieve its goals in 4 years of operation, and moves further from achieving these goals as time goes on.' The project's servers will remain online long enough to allow developers to move their various projects elsewhere."

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  1. What a surprise... by evilviper · · Score: 0, Troll

    Gee... You mean lifting large chunks of code from other free operating systems to create a slow and very limited OS, and then imposing restrictive license terms on that free code, somehow doesn't automatically lead to an OSS project everyone wants to jump on???

    I'm SHOCKED! Shocked I say!

    Somehow I don't think the end of OpenDarwin is going to mean Apple will stop lifting code from the BSDs.

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  2. Re:pkgsrc by Durandal64 · · Score: 0, Troll
    Don't like hearing that do ya? Maybe next time you can avoid calling people stupid when they didn't anticipate everything you could possibly do to fuck up the software they've written.
    Hey fuck-stick, it doesn't take some sort of special effort to support a case-sensitive volume. There are plenty of apps out there written on case-insensitive volumes that run just fine on case-sensitive ones. All it takes using the correct paths and being consistent. If you refer to the path "/This/is/a/path" with the string "/this/Is/A/Path", you're doing it wrong, period, regardless of what your target filesystem is. Know why? Because those two aren't the same fucking string. It's not a question of whether or not you're being an idiot (you are); it's a question of whether the system is going to punish you for it. This is not a difficult concept to grasp, and yes it is developer laziness.

    Saying, "Install it on a case-insensitive volume" is a stupid solution because it could involve reformatting your existing volume. They couldn't even give a decent workaround: creating a disk image with a case-insensitive file system.