From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 9 13:16:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E596D1568B for ; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 13:16:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (dcs@p01-dn02kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [210.163.200.98]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) with ESMTP id GAA23104; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 06:16:37 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <384F656B.52F01F9B@newsguy.com> Date: Thu, 09 Dec 1999 17:16:43 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Motoyuki Konno Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why 'The legacy aout build' was removed from current ? References: <19991209163452O.shigeru@iij.ad.jp> <199912090800.RAA01655@tomoyo.snipe.rim.or.jp> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Motoyuki Konno wrote: > > I think we don't need "a.out world" any more, but a.out support > (a.out lib/shared lib, etc.) is still needed. Some commercial > programs such as Netscape are in a.out only, so we still have to > make a.out binaries. > > Please see Netscape plugin port (ports/www/flashplugin) to find > out why we still have to need a.out support. Current is not a general use platform. And if we want them (third party) to support FreeBSD-elf by the time 4.x becomes -stable, we better lock them out of it *now*. The main reason for removing the legacy support is forcing people to switch. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) who is as social as a wampas dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message