From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 6 15:26:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [63.67.141.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A298B14CCD; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:26:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scanner@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (scanner@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA73169; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 18:26:16 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 18:26:16 -0500 (EST) From: To: "David O'Brien" Cc: Darren Reed , committers@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.0 code freeze scheduled for Jan 15th In-Reply-To: <20000106144856.F1417@dragon.nuxi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, David O'Brien wrote: > And when will IPv6 fully be in 4-CURRENT? > Besides offering two cents what else can you offer to make this happen? > Time? More money? > > People here aren't backing their opinions by tell us *how* their to make > their opinions happen. I cant do anything about time. Im not the one setting a deadline for FreeBSD releases. So thats moot. The point im trying to make is regardless of the state IPv6 is in, leaving it out of a major release is a no no IMO. Looking at the 4.4BSD Design and Implementation book you can see that on all major releases NEW items were added, TCP/IP, VM, etc.. Now everyone is perfectly aware of the fact that -core tries to keep releases and FreeBSD in general as stable as possible. And ultimely it's up to david and the rest what is going in and what is not. No one is going to argue with that. All I am saying and I think other's as well is that leaving v6 OUT of 4.0 would possibly be a negative move for the OS. It's not like were moving from v4 to v6. Were just asking that it be included in the OS. It should be available to researchers using 4.0-RELEASE. That's all im saying. There is no reason to ask for resources or anything else to make it happen. It's simply, include it even though it's buggy or dont. Thats how I see it anyway. There are people who are speaking up saying "Yes I want to see v6 in 4.0". I personally can live with it being in 4.1 or later. But if it's going to hurt FreeBSD in research labs, and universities who move to Linux instead or Solaris because they have a shipping v6 release regardless of how well it works that will hurt FreeBSD. That's all i'm saying take it for what its worth. Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message