Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 00:36:21 -0500 From: Yuval Levy <freebsd-current@sfina.com> To: Brad Knowles <brad@stop.mail-abuse.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: RE: FreeBSD 6.0 and onwards Message-ID: <JDEKJNLCGHFCNEBPGLHBOENFFDAA.freebsd-current@sfina.com> In-Reply-To: <p06002087bdb54f88705b@[10.0.1.3]>
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Brad Knowles wrote: > That's not possible. You can't continually accrete more and more > patches on top of one another. Sooner or later, you have to make > discontinuous changes. FreeBSD works to make these as smooth and as > infrequent as reasonably possible, but they still have to > occasionally be made. I was not thinking of patches, but rather of a clean rewrite with backward compatibility. I understand it is not always possible and there are trade offs in terms of time and ressources dedicated to the effort. I appreciate the effort of the FreeBSD project to make disruption as infrequent as reasonably possible and understand that occasionally disruption is inevitable. All I wanted to contribute to the discussion was my preference for slow and steady progress of a stable environment with clearly defined and possibly automated upgrade path rather than quantum leaps requiring a fully fledged migration. Yuval Levy
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