Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Mon, 12 Feb 1996 16:29:34 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        imp@village.org (Warner Losh)
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Anybody using netns?
Message-ID:  <199602122329.QAA21330@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <199602122000.NAA07308@rover.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at Feb 12, 96 01:00:18 pm

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> Purhaps there should be a separate area for unsupported hunks of code
> so they don't disappear forever.  I worry that code placed in the
> attic will eventually be deleted for good.
> 
> If it is elsewhere, but available, then people that want it can get
> it, while people that don't won't have to worry about it.
> 
> In other words, make them unsupported source packages, AS IS.
> 
> Finally, I don't believe that -current represents all of the user
> base.  While the conclusion reached by a survey of -current might be
> congruent with those of the entire community, you might find more
> people using this stuff than you had originally thought...

I completely agree.  There should be an area, like "experimental"
called "legacy" or "unsupported".

I should not have to set up SUP and CVS to get something out of an
attic that might be going away.


I think that this is the kind of mistake that helps perpetuate
single architecture support.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
---
Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199602122329.QAA21330>