From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 26 18:10:43 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D322016A4CE for ; Sat, 26 Jun 2004 18:10:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web13422.mail.yahoo.com (web13422.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.175.132]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A2DEA43D2D for ; Sat, 26 Jun 2004 18:10:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pfgshield-pedro@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20040626181035.28404.qmail@web13422.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [63.171.232.246] by web13422.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 26 Jun 2004 20:10:35 CEST Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 20:10:35 +0200 (CEST) From: To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 11:45:10 +0000 Subject: Re: HEADSUP: ibcs2 and svr4 compat headed for history X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 18:10:44 -0000 Just my $0.02; One thing is killing COMPAT_SUNOS and COMPAT_43, assuming removing them does clean up something and that everything will work as before, however I think the commercial UNIX compat should be preserved precisely because these systems are on their way to extinction, although not there yet. How about people wanting to migrate from those systems into something more modern? What if their legacy applications (for which they spent money) have no opensource equivalent? If someone doesn't want to use them, just don't build them, there's no need to axe them. It looks like the decision is already taken though so let me say, just IMHO, that NetBSD is looking more and more attractive lately, while our compatibility base is shrinking their's is growing. cheers, Pedro. ____________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Companion - Scarica gratis la toolbar di Ricerca di Yahoo! http://companion.yahoo.it