From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 6 12:38:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from hurlame.pdl.cs.cmu.edu (HURLAME.PDL.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.189.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FE1B37B4EC; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 12:38:05 -0800 (PST) Received: (from magus@localhost) by hurlame.pdl.cs.cmu.edu (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f16Kbx544151; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 15:37:59 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from magus) To: John Baldwin Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: md, current and stable References: From: Nat Lanza Date: 06 Feb 2001 15:37:57 -0500 In-Reply-To: John Baldwin's message of "Tue, 06 Feb 2001 11:29:48 -0800 (PST)" Message-ID: Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) XEmacs/21.1 (Channel Islands) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Baldwin writes: > Releases are bad enough as is w/o having to add in a multitude of > hacks so that one can roll a 5.0 release on a 2.2.x box, etc. Sure, but allowing 4.x users to do a source upgrade to 5.0 makes the upgrade path much more flexible. There's a big difference between "support source upgrades from version N-1" and "support source upgrades from all versions". --nat -- nat lanza --------------------- research programmer, parallel data lab, cmu scs magus@cs.cmu.edu -------------------------------- http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~magus/ there are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths -- alfred north whitehead To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message