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On 2007-08-01 05:20, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> wrote:
>On 2007-Jul-31 21:01:20 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> It may be sensible to phase out the alpha-specific parts now, or at
>> least make it easy to skip them (since we don't really support alpha
>> in the latest releases).
>
> Alpha is still supported in 6.x.  Since 7.x isn't even out yet,
> deleting the Alpha-specific parts is probably premature.  It might
> be worthwhile adding "not supported beyond 6.x" notes.

True; you're right that deleting the alpha-specific parts is premature
right now.  A markup/note would be nice though :-)

On 2007-08-01 08:58, Remko Lodder <remko@elvandar.org> wrote:
> Hence the "make it easy to skip them" part :-) that will make deletion
> much easier later on.

Yep. That's the spirit :-)