Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:30:44 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> Cc: src-committers@freebsd.org, peterjeremy@optushome.com.au, yar@comp.chem.msu.su, eischen@vigrid.com, cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-src@freebsd.org, kensmith@cse.buffalo.edu, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen fts-compat.c fts-compat.h Message-ID: <200708271530.45290.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20070827185741.GX87451@elvis.mu.org> References: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0708251703550.19091@sea.ntplx.net> <20070827.085906.-332187760.imp@bsdimp.com> <20070827185741.GX87451@elvis.mu.org>
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On Monday 27 August 2007 02:57:41 pm Alfred Perlstein wrote: > Sorry for top posting, but... > > I agree very strongly with Warner, in short, if possible, reducing the > number of major gotchas of running current will make our developer > and early adopters a lot happier. > > It will help FreeBSD. > > One of the things that turns me off to FreeBSD is the feeling that > I get that certain people take some kind of pride in forcing users > to go through dangerous and complex hoops in order to run current. > > It shouldn't be so if the overhead of making it easier is so small. It has zero to do with pride, but it does have a lot to do with allowing HEAD to be a branch for development as opposed to the stable branches that are more intended with deployment. Those are quite different feature sets. -- John Baldwin
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