Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 20:42:55 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: We need to do another XFree86 release for -current someday soon.. Message-ID: <199604010342.UAA11579@rover.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of Sun, 31 Mar 1996 14:52:58 MST
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: I didn't complain about libraries because I was unaware that this would : cause a library change, rather than an alloable parameter change to : some system calls (I assumed the interface was parametric). I also didn't complain because quite frankly there was too much flamage over the topic and I missed the "we gotta bump libc.so to 3.0" part of the discussions at the time. I don't like flamage, so I tend to stop reading those threads, or similar sounding ones. It was also stated that no one is using this code, so that no one will be impacted by its removal. However, now everyone either has to keep multiple copies of libc around the disk and memory of their machines, or recompile everything. That hardly sounds like "nobody" to me. Saying we're a month too late, especially when the original discussion took place the way it did is somewhat unfortunate. While I understand that it has been a while, at least listen to the people that want just stubs and engage them in a reasonable debate. Any change can be backed out, or a new change written so that we don't need to bump the major rev. If there are *OTHER* reasons or plans that will require a major rev bump, please let communicate that fact. If that is indeed the plans, then there is no reason to continue this debate, since we gotta do it. Sorry if I'm sounding a little hot under the collar, but it really upsets me when reasonable things are requested, and unreasonable answers come back sounding like "Oh, you should have said something during the Terry vs the world flame fest. It is too late now. You lose. Stop bothing us and get lost." Warner
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