From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 24 11:33:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C129537BC3C for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 11:33:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA29378; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 12:01:24 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 12:01:23 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Jonathon McKitrick Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: stupid question about stable and current :-) Message-ID: <20000224120123.K21720@fw.wintelcom.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org on Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 02:42:36PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Jonathon McKitrick [000224 07:12] wrote: > As i peruse the list of issues in -current, i can't help but wonder > how BSD will still run older apps when it seems the system is being > gutted. I see so many things being changed and tweaked and rewritten. > Is the work being done now to make -current work with all the ports > and basic system programs? Is this the period where all the breakages > are being fixed? Or is this the period where the bridges to the past > are burned in the name of progress, and now all ports must be from the > -current collect rather than 3.x-stable? DOes this question make any > sense? > > Here's another way to put it: with all the breakages being fixed for > ports and other progs, do these usually have unwanted side effects? We are very careful to maintain binary compatibility, consider Xig who still makes an aout version of thier X server it works, certain other things such as kernel internal APIs and locations of executables and config files will change, but that only happens in the HEAD branch (-current). Basically, if you can't run a 2.2.x program that doesn't rely on kernel internals and file locations we'd like to know. :) -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message