Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 18:03:34 +0100 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [HEADSUP] IPX and NWFS to be killed in -current. Message-ID: <85967.1102352614@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 06 Dec 2004 16:56:21 GMT." <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1041206165120.74271A-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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In message <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1041206165120.74271A-100000@fledge.watson.org>, Robe rt Watson writes: >> We are aiming 6.X at production readiness around start of 2006. >> >> By that time IPX and NWFS are not really interesting and nobody seems to >> be interested in doing the SMPng work on them. >> >I'm not necessarily opposed to removing IPX/SPX on the basis that it >is hardly a mainstream protocol component anymore, but I think it's >probably not accurate to say that no one is interested in doing the >locking work for the IPX parts (since I'm working on it :-). That's cool, but there are so many other things I'd rather want to see you spend your time on. Despite what people have said, I still think that will not be able to stand by and support the IPX/NWFS things from 2006 until 2007-2008. Do we even know if it works in 5.3 ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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