Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 05:12:18 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au> Cc: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans), jkh@time.cdrom.com, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-sys@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci if_tl.c if_tlreg.h Message-ID: <199805221212.FAA09041@antipodes.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 22 May 1998 19:14:55 %2B1000." <199805220915.TAA13747@avalon.reed.wattle.id.au>
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> In some email I received from Bruce Evans, sie wrote: > > >> That may be so, but when the sources are committed to the tree proper, > > >> they shouldn't have ifdef version spaghetti. > > > > > >Hmmm. Just to be sure I understand your position - are you saying > > >that sources should never use conditional compilation which depends > > >on the FreeBSD version number? That seems... Draconian. > > > > Yes. > > Nothing like making life hard for people developing non-core applications > for FreeBSD developers who (for one reason or another) are required to > support multiple versions of the OS in the source. > > However, FreeBSD, in this, is acting just the same as the linux crowd is > and to be quite frank, IMHO it's just plain silliness. Bruce != FreeBSD -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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