From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Oct 29 08:17:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA11895 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 08:17:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from point.osg.gov.bc.ca (point.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.102.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA11882 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 08:17:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cy@cschuber.net.gov.bc.ca) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by point.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.9.1/8.8.8) id IAA17255; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 08:08:33 -0800 Received: from passer.osg.gov.bc.ca(142.32.110.29) via SMTP by point.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpda17253; Thu Oct 29 08:08:18 1998 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.9.1/8.9.1) id IAA16539; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 08:08:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from cschuber.net.gov.bc.ca(142.31.240.113), claiming to be "cwsys.cwsent.com" via SMTP by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpdm16537; Thu Oct 29 08:07:24 1998 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cwsys.cwsent.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id IAA28278; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 08:06:28 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199810291606.IAA28278@cwsys.cwsent.com> Received: from localhost.cwsent.com(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "cwsys" via SMTP by localhost.cwsent.com, id smtpdE28276; Thu Oct 29 08:06:20 1998 Reply-to: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group X-Mailer: MH X-Sender: cy To: John Polstra cc: dom@phmit.demon.co.uk, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -stable to 3.0 transition In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 19 Oct 1998 09:22:38 PDT." <199810191622.JAA13720@austin.polstra.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 08:06:19 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <199810191622.JAA13720@austin.polstra.com>, John Polstra writes: > In article , > Dom Mitchell wrote: > > > How long will a.out builds be supported for? > > I would expect them to be phased out before the next release of 3.x.x. > We are trying to make a point of _not_ becoming a "pick your favorite > object format" OS. Sorry for the lateness of this reply. I hadn't considered the following until considering similar ramifications on a Linux box I manage. A number of people have purchased commercial products based on a.out binaries. I for example have purchased Motif 2.0 and CDE 1.1. I am not concerned about the window manager, however I do have quite a few Motif apps. Does this mean that these apps will stop working once that a.out will no longer be supported? If no-one produces a Motif distribution for FreeBSD ELF, would apps like native FreeBSD Netscape would no longer be supported? Any thoughts? Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Open Systems Group Internet: cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca ITSD Cy.Schubert@gems8.gov.bc.ca Government of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message