Date: 06 Feb 2001 15:37:57 -0500 From: Nat Lanza <magus@cs.cmu.edu> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: md, current and stable Message-ID: <uoclmrj5yze.fsf@hurlame.pdl.cs.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: John Baldwin's message of "Tue, 06 Feb 2001 11:29:48 -0800 (PST)" References: <XFMail.010206112948.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> writes: > Releases are bad enough as is w/o having to add in a multitude of > hacks so that one can roll a 5.0 release on a 2.2.x box, etc. Sure, but allowing 4.x users to do a source upgrade to 5.0 makes the upgrade path much more flexible. There's a big difference between "support source upgrades from version N-1" and "support source upgrades from all versions". --nat -- nat lanza --------------------- research programmer, parallel data lab, cmu scs magus@cs.cmu.edu -------------------------------- http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~magus/ there are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths -- alfred north whitehead To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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