Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 23:13:39 +0200 From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@portaone.com> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/compat/linux linux_socket.c Message-ID: <422F6703.70409@portaone.com> In-Reply-To: <20050309.085035.129356491.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <422E407B.4080507@portaone.com> <86k6oht386.fsf@xps.des.no> <422F087F.9030906@portaone.com> <20050309.085035.129356491.imp@bsdimp.com>
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M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <422F087F.9030906@portaone.com> > Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@portaone.com> writes: > : and need this tool to upgrade otherwise perfectly working system(s). > > As a veteran of ABI wars, I think that you have an unrealistic > expectations about what can be done. While an interesting goal, too > many of the developers are hard wired to not even think about such > considerations to make it successful. We have a hard enough time > making backward compatibility work, there's no hope for 'forward' > compatability. As a junior of ABI wars I think I have a realistic expectation about what can be done. Yes, many developers don't care about `backward' compatibility, let alone `forward' compatibility, but in fact both are really necessary in we want to position FreeBSD as a sound design. -Maxim
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