Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:11:55 -0500 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r225937 - in head: . release release/amd64 release/i386 release/ia64 release/pc98 release/powerpc release/scripts release/sparc64 usr.sbin usr.sbin/sysinstall Message-ID: <4E8A251B.3000300@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CDBA04EF-69EE-47F2-A1FC-D00428AE1650@gmail.com> References: <201110031513.p93FD9ev015593@svn.freebsd.org> <4E8A209E.8010407@FreeBSD.org> <CDBA04EF-69EE-47F2-A1FC-D00428AE1650@gmail.com>
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On 10/03/11 15:54, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Oct 3, 2011, at 1:52 PM, Doug Barton wrote: > >> On 10/03/2011 08:13, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: >>> Author: nwhitehorn >>> Date: Mon Oct 3 15:13:09 2011 >>> New Revision: 225937 >>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/225937 >>> >>> Log: >>> Farewall, sysinstall! You served us well for many years, but 10.0 is one >>> digit beyond your time. >> >> sysinstall had (at least) 2 primary purposes, installation, and >> post-install system configuration. The new installer is a good step >> towards the first goal, but we currently have nothing to fulfill the >> second role. For that reason I think this step is premature. >> >> One could also make the case that this is exactly the kind of disruptive >> change that the release engineer asked us not to do until the release is >> done, but I'll leave that to them to deal with. :) > > FWIW, I thought timeline between deprecation and deletion was at least 2 releases too.. > -Garrett I had thought the intention was to let it remain in 9.0 indefinitely and then to remove it from 10 (which gives sysinstall a more than 20-year run). I brought this up early last week on the freebsd-sysinstall list, to no objections and some encouragement. It can be reverted, of course, if people would prefer that. -Nathan
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