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Re: How are package chosen for an OSX release ?

On Tuesday, June 24, 2003, at 12:54, Luc Heinrich wrote:

Greetings,

Simple question: how are the "packages" composing the BSD layer chosen ? I'm talking about all those command line thingies, scripting environments and stuff like that. I am particularly interested in knowing the time between the decision that package X makes it to the final release and the time it is effectively added.

Why am I asking this ? Well, Ruby 1.8 is supposed to be shipped in a few weeks and I would *love* to see the aging 1.6.7 of Jaguar be replaced by the 1.8 in Panther... :)

Oh and another quicky: FreeBSD kernel 4.8 - FreeBSD 5.0 layer in Panther, does this mean we're going to get kqueue/kevent ? :)

It's important to keep in mind that the FreeBSD and Mac OS X kernels have diverged quite a bit. As a result, various pieces of the kernel may contain code similar to that in FreeBSD 4.5 while other parts may be similar to that of FreeBSD 5.0. For example, last year, for Jaguar, the network stack was updated to something similar to FreeBSD 4.4's stack. One of the major exceptions was the way timers were handled due to differences in our kernels. We have taken some fixes to the networking stack that are in FreeBSD 4.5 and potentially FreeBSD 5.0, but we are in no way in synch with any specific release.

-josh
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