Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 19:05:35 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: dillon@earth.backplane.com (Matt Dillon) Cc: bsddiy@163.net (David Xu), tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), bde@zeta.org.au ((Bruce Evans)), arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Re[2]: Found BAD BUG: squashed Message-ID: <200104200205.TAA66037@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <200104200133.f3K1XtN65914@earth.backplane.com> from Matt Dillon at "Apr 19, 2001 06:33:55 pm"
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> > :why cann't it go into 4.3-release? if you think this will break many third > :party utils, how do you think 4.4-release won't break them ? > : > :-- > :Best regards, > :David Xu > > Too great a chance that it will mess something up and turn the CDs into > so much shiny garbage. If we put it in just after the release we have > several months to deal with any potential problems before the > next set of CD's is cut. And instantly invalidate the viability of commercial software vendors 4.3-RELEASE versions of code running on systems tracking -stable to keep up with serious bug fixes. It's a double edge sword, this change should either go in now, or right before 4.4 goes to BETA. Any other time is going to have disruptive effects... The only real time that breaking binary capatibilty in the -stable tree makes since is right _BEFORE_ release, not right after! -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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