From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Oct 21 19:21:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA14322 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 19:21:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from austin.polstra.com (austin.polstra.com [206.213.73.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA14315 for ; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 19:21:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@austin.polstra.com) Received: from austin.polstra.com (jdp@localhost) by austin.polstra.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAA14379; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 19:21:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp) Message-Id: <199810220221.TAA14379@austin.polstra.com> To: Rasmus Kaj cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -stable to 3.0 transition In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 21 Oct 1998 19:17:29 +0200." <19981021191729T.kaj@interbizz.se> Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 19:21:03 -0700 From: John Polstra Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >> 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? Yes, some future release on the 3.0 branch will become FreeBSD-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. On the contrary, -stable is not the place for phasing things in or out. It's supposed to be, well ... "stable." The 3.0 branch won't become FreeBSD-stable until it is in really good shape. Even now, there are very very few problems in 3.0 that can be attributed to ELF. There are some broken ports (which are rapidly being fixed by our ports fixing _machine_ Steve Price and others), but that's about it. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." -- H. L. Mencken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message