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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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