Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 18:33:24 +0300 (EET DST) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: Dennis <dennis@etinc.com> Cc: hackers%freebsd.org@sunrise.cs.berkeley.edu, jkh%time.cdrom.com@sunrise.cs.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: What are the plans for ELF support? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960809182840.13368F@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <199608091501.LAA07670@etinc.com>
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On Fri, 9 Aug 1996, Dennis wrote: > > > >jkh@time.cdrom.com said: > >:- we'll only switch to ELF if and when it demonstrates a set of > >:- advantages which outweigh the disadvantages of changing. > > And also to justify the extra work (and nightmares) of multiple object > support during the transition period.... And if FreeBSD is going to continue the tradition of backwards compatibility, someone will have to dream up a new way of doing the compat dists - compat1x, 2x, 21, etc. Sander > > Dennis > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Emerging Technologies, Inc. http://www.etinc.com > > Synchronous Communications Cards and Routers For > Discriminating Tastes. 56k to T1 and beyond. Frame > Relay, PPP, HDLC, and X.25 for BSD/OS, FreeBSD > and LINUX > >
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