Re: about GNU Hurd

[jemarch]

       If we are sure we need HURD-NG, it is no-sense to work in Hurd on
       gnumach anymore. To ask people to work in Hurd on gnumach is then to
       ask hackers to work in something that wont be useful.

   That's too strong a statement.  To work on a short-term version and a
   long-term version in parallel is not absurd.  I think that people do
   lots of work on the stable version of Linux while others do work on
   preparing the next one.

I based my statement in that HURD-NG seems to be a redesign of the
Hurd. From Neal:

   Hurd-NG, as we originally called it, was an attempt to articulate
   the system that we had come to envision in terms of interfaces and
   description of the system's structure.  The new name was selected,
   if I recall correctly, as it clearly wasn't the Hurd nor the Hurd
   based on L4.

So, as long as I understand it, it seems that HURD-NG is not a "move
to another microkernel" issue, but a "redesign the hurd" one.

Anyway, I dont have enough information about the issue, so i will
stop rambling :)