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Date:      Fri, 29 Mar 1996 21:00:25 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Tony Kimball <alk@Think.COM>
Cc:        current@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: We need to do another XFree86 release for -current someday soon.. 
Message-ID:  <199603300400.VAA07310@rover.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 29 Mar 1996 12:19:40 CST

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:    > Why do ns_addr() and iso_addr() have to go?  What's the big deal?
: 
:    Because the network address families they supported are no longer
:    shipped, and thus they won't compile any more.
: 
: Please, that isn't good enough to justify the cost.  Stub them to
: return errors.

When they were removed, it was because no one was using them.
However, now everyone is impacted by having to build new binaries.  If
this is the only reason, it seems that it would be better to stub them
out (since no one will notice if no one is using them) and not bumpt
the major rev of the shared libaries.

Warner



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