From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Jun 6 10:16:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD86937B400 for ; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 10:16:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.3/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g56HGSJn089170; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 10:16:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g56HGREQ089169; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 10:16:27 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 10:16:27 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: Brian Somers , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Avoiding unnecessary breakage (was Re: Removing wait union) Message-ID: <20020606101627.G59829@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Mail-Followup-To: David O'Brien , Garance A Drosihn , Brian Somers , arch@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200206050051.UAA07971@renown.cnchost.com> <20020605192430.1f29c8d2.brian@Awfulhak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from drosih@rpi.edu on Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 05:37:23PM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 05:37:23PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > I agree that we could do a better job of smoothing in the > transition of some incompatible changes. But it is my feeling > that "major releases" are probably not the best way to set the > timescale for those transitions. 2.0 -> 3.0 took four years, "major releases" in the version 2 days were X.Y. Thus you need to compaire 2.0[.0]->2.1.0->2.2.0->3.0. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message