Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 13:09:54 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: eps@sirius.com (Eric P. Scott) Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NO_TCSH issue Message-ID: <v04210104b5decbe0f0a0@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <200009080254.TAA52210@mail1.sirius.com> References: <200009080254.TAA52210@mail1.sirius.com>
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At 7:54 PM -0700 9/7/00, Eric P. Scott wrote: >But I stand by my >opinion that replacing csh with tcsh in 4.1-RELEASE was the >single most ill-conceived action taken by the committers. My opinion is that the new tcsh is fine. Other opinions have also been tabulated. Your opinion is noted, but will not carry the day, because it is still only one person's opinion and the overall votes are against you. Perhaps the csh/tcsh move IS the worst action taken on the way to release 4.1, but if so then the people behind the 4.1 release should be mighty pleased that the WORST thing they did was still a good thing. Just MO. >I expect to continue recommending 3.5.1-RELEASE for all new >installations where it's hardware-compatible. (Why, oh why, >wasn't Adaptec 29160 support back-ported?) There are a lot of improvements in the newer releases, even for hardware that is supported by 3.5.1. At this point, I wouldn't run anything less than 4.1, unless constrained by some resource (memory, disk space, whatever). You have the source from 3.5.1. If this csh/tcsh change is the ONLY reason you are not recommending 4.1, then I would think your customers would be better off with 4.1 plus the old version version of csh. There is no one who is going to force you or your customers to run this new csh/tcsh if you do not want to run it. ps: is this the same EPS from NeXTSTEP/RBrowser days? --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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