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
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> 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.
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