From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jun 30 17:54:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA26609 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 17:54:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xmission.xmission.com (softweyr@xmission.com [198.60.22.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA26596 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 17:54:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from softweyr@localhost) by xmission.xmission.com (8.8.5/8.7.5) id SAA22133; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 18:53:48 -0600 (MDT) From: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC Message-Id: <199707010053.SAA22133@xmission.xmission.com> Subject: Re: NFS mounts on NT with Hummingbird Maestro To: scott@statsci.com Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 18:53:47 -3000 (MDT) Cc: chat@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199706301723.KAA25628@apple.statsci.com> from "Scott Blachowicz" at Jun 30, 97 10:23:03 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Scott Blachowicz stated: > Except that my experience as a developer is that we tend to try to work > on the oldest version of the OS that are customers are likely to have > on the theory that whatever we build on version N will work on versions > N+1 and N+2 :-( and not necessarily the other way around. Do you actually develop UNIX applications? Certainly not during the Sun-sponsored "upgrade to Slowlaris 2.0" fiasco. You couldn't do this with Solaris 2.0, 2.1, or 2.2, because they kept making all this incompatible upgrades between revisions, and NOBDOY was dumb enough to stay on 2.0 or 2.2 for longer than it took them to slide the CD-ROM into the drive. Your strategy is partially useful on HP-UX, if you don't mind a 15% performance hit (running 9.0x apps on 10.0x). It doesn't work well on AIX, where contrary to IBM marketing claims, most 3.1.x apps are useless on 3.2.x. And you though upgrading from FreeBSD 2.1.7 to 2.2.2 was tough! ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com