From owner-freebsd-current Sat Dec 11 13: 9: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FAA015251 for ; Sat, 11 Dec 1999 13:09:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@d60-025.leach.ucdavis.edu [169.237.60.25]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA96793; Sat, 11 Dec 1999 13:09:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id NAA68974; Sat, 11 Dec 1999 13:09:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 13:09:02 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why 'The legacy aout build' was removed from current ? Message-ID: <19991211130902.C14998@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <199912090800.RAA01655@tomoyo.snipe.rim.or.jp> <42967.944727820@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <42967.944727820@axl.noc.iafrica.com>; from sheldonh@uunet.co.za on Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 10:23:40AM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 10:23:40AM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > Are you sure? Any a.out binaries for FreeBSD are going to be desgined > to work with 3.x or older. Why??? A.out runs just fine on 4.0-R, and had better on 5.0-R. > So producing a.out libraries for CURRENT is silly. :-) Nope. You really need to think about the ISV's. Why do you think Netscape is still a.out? ISV's want to produce one binary that runs across multiple generations of FreeBSD. Take Applixware for instance. It is built on 3.1. It needs compat3x to run on CURRENT. Don't be surprised if Applixware is still built on 3.1 when 5.0-R hits the streets. What I'm getting at here is ISV's needs are different from ours as OS developers. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message