Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 22:23:12 -0700 From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org> To: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> Cc: jamil@acroal.com (J. Weatherbee - Senior Systems Architect), jasone@canonware.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OS Ports Message-ID: <199712130523.WAA00361@pencil-box.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 10 Dec 1997 20:19:39 EST." <199712110119.UAA01319@dyson.iquest.net> References: <199712110119.UAA01319@dyson.iquest.net>
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In message <199712110119.UAA01319@dyson.iquest.net> "John S. Dyson" writes: : I am definitely not flaming you, but -current is stable enough as a : base. There will be improvements and enhancements along the way. : If we started with -stable, it is unlikely that the Sparc port would : ever catch up to the X86 port. It is much more likely that you can get deltas integrated into -current for something this "radical" than for -stable. -stable is supposed to not change much, and doing a port to a new h/w platform will likely require a lot of change. -current can cope with code reorgs and the like, but -stable can not. Warner
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