Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 21:55:50 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Commercial vendors registry Message-ID: <19970414215550.KK19956@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970414105117.27936B-100000@willi>; from Christoph Haas on Apr 14, 1997 11:02:28 %2B0200 References: <199704140313.WAA07958@argus> <Pine.SOL.3.96.970414105117.27936B-100000@willi>
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As Christoph Haas wrote: > Allright. Now that I've followed the discussion for a while, I'm going to > setup a registration desk for commercial vendors. Its success depends of Appreciated! > whether you (the developers) try to help me a little bit or not. All I ask > from you is to leave me a little note if you break something seriuosly. I Well, the problem with this is, you often don't know that you're breaking something, let alone that it might be something very important for a particular vendor. Things like the utmp change are obvious, but there was no secret about it. Other things are hidden gotchas, where it will only be apparent afterwards that they might have broken some compatibility. I still remember the numerous small fixes to the shell that sometimes broke compatibility to previously existing features. This breakage wasn't intended, thus no form of warning was possible. That's the kind of things that must be ironed out in -current (but sometimes even sneak into a release since the number of people testing -current is more limited than those of testing releases). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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