From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Oct 21 10:18:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA12698 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 10:18:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sussie.datadesign.se (ns.datadesign.se [194.23.109.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA12690 for ; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 10:18:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kaj@interbizz.se) Received: from localhost (sussie.datadesign.se [194.23.109.130]) by sussie.datadesign.se (8.8.5/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA17333; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 19:17:30 +0200 (MET DST) To: jdp@polstra.com Cc: dom@phmit.demon.co.uk, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: kaj@interbizz.se Subject: Re: -stable to 3.0 transition From: Rasmus Kaj In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 19 Oct 1998 09:22:38 -0700" <199810191622.JAA13720@austin.polstra.com> References: <199810191622.JAA13720@austin.polstra.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.92.4 on XEmacs 20.4 (Emerald) X-URL: http://www.e.kth.se/~kaj/ X-Phone: +46 (0)8 - 692 35 09 / +46 (0)70 640 49 14 X-Attribution: Kaj X-Face: M9cR~WYav<"fu%MaslX0`43PAYY?uIsM8[#E(0\Xuy9rj>4gE\h3jm.7DD?]R8*^7T\o&vT U@[53Dwkuup4[0@gw#~kyu>`unH?kVj9CJa02(h>Ki\+i=%rn%sDf^KC.!?IHkKjMAbkd\jgmphp^' d|Q;OeXEAhq?ybGqOs1CHb6TJT42'C`Krnk61//AOfXtNjj/t'`5>Vw0QX!dKfOL$.f+S"LIuwR<;I Z0Qnnx(F^F]o@*V%TUtEV'1Z[TkOl^FFV9Z~A[b19%}uP*,huCU Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <19981021191729T.kaj@interbizz.se> Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 19:17:29 +0200 X-Dispatcher: imput version 971024 Lines: 18 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "JP" == John Polstra writes: >> How long will a.out builds be supported for? JP> I would expect them to be phased out before the next release of JP> 3.x.x. We are trying to make a point of _not_ becoming a "pick JP> your favorite object format" OS. Wouldn't the next release of 3.x.x (or even a later release) be the first release of 3...-stable? It would be nice to have ELF support in -stable for at least a month or so of cvsup before phasing out a.out. // Rasmus -- kaj@cityonline.se --------------- Rasmus Kaj - http://www.e.kth.se/~kaj/ \ CityOnLine IB Production AB - http://www.CityOnLine.se/ \- If you think I'm talking about the future you're living in the past To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message