From owner-cvs-all Fri Feb 9 16:23:59 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from meow.osd.bsdi.com (meow.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB9D337B6D8; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 16:23:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (murray@localhost) by meow.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f1A0LQX64936; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 16:21:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from murray@osd.bsdi.com) Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 16:21:26 -0800 (PST) From: Murray Stokely To: "David O'Brien" Cc: Murray Stokely , , Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/compat Makefile src/lib/compat/compat4x.i386 Makefile libc.so.4.gz.uu libc_r.so.4.gz.uu libdialog.so.4.gz.uu libedit.so.3.gz.uu libfetch.so.2.gz.uu libftpio.so.5.gz.uu libhisto In-Reply-To: <20010209152724.A30856@dragon.nuxi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, David O'Brien wrote: % It would have been nice if you had asked and waited for a reply from the % person(s) that had been active in this area lately. Yet another reason % why I am a big fan of maintainership. I'm sorry, I should have waited longer for you to reply. % I have stated more than once in the mailing lists why I had yet to make a % compat4x dist. For every 4.x release before 5.0-RELEASE, we now have to % commit new libs. Since they are uuencoded gzip'ed files -- there is zero % lines that remain the same and thus the repo bloat is a big factor. This is true but the fact remains that a lot of us need 4.x compatibility. We are currently producing FreeBSD snapshots that won't run many binaries from our latest official FreeBSD release simply because of our source code management system. I think that the repo-bloat is an acceptable price for the basic ability to run common FreeBSD applications. If I'm a minority with this stance then we can back-out the change and put up a tarball somewhere. % You also should have done the Alpha bits at the same time if you were % going to do the i386 bits -- now you've done a 1/2 job. I'll gladly make Alpha bits if the change stays. - Murray To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message