From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 10 19:49:58 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4295A16A4CE; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:49:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBFB943D62; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:49:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from [192.168.254.11] (junior-wifi.samsco.home [192.168.254.11]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j2AJokfk088133; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 12:50:47 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Message-ID: <4230A454.8030502@samsco.org> Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 12:47:32 -0700 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050218 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Maxim Sobolev References: <422E407B.4080507@portaone.com> <86k6oht386.fsf@xps.des.no> <422F087F.9030906@portaone.com> <20050309.085035.129356491.imp@bsdimp.com> <422F6703.70409@portaone.com> <20050310161607.GO98930@myrddin.originative.co.uk> <86d5u7fn1z.fsf@xps.des.no> <20050310171917.GQ98930@myrddin.originative.co.uk> <42308769.5080506@samsco.org> <4230A3B7.1000402@portaone.com> In-Reply-To: <4230A3B7.1000402@portaone.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.8 required=3.8 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on pooker.samsco.org cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/compat/linux linux_socket.c X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:49:58 -0000 Maxim Sobolev wrote: > Scott Long wrote: > >> Paul Richards wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 06:06:16PM +0100, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: >>> >>>> Paul Richards writes: >>>> >>>>> Imagine something like Photoshop being written on the most recent >>>>> version of Mac OS X and finding that compatibility only worked >>>>> forward. That would mean that most users out there would have to >>>>> upgrade their OS in order to use the most recent version of Photoshop! >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Yes, that is usually how it goes. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> I don't believe it does. Can anyone provide real world examples of >>> this happening that we can consider? >>> >> >> You know, I'm completely outraged that I can't use MSWord 2005 on my >> Windows 3.1 system! I even installed the win32s library! Don't those >> bozos at Microsoft care at all about forwards compatibility? > > > Well, know what? This is really bad example. For what MS can't be > blaimed it is the lack of forward and backward compatibility. I still > can run Office 2003 on Windows 95 without any problems. > > -Maxim Well, the only reason this is possible is because MSWord ships with a complete set of system DLLs with MSWord that act as compatibility shims. But yes, it was a poor example and an unsuccessful attempt at humor on my part. Scott