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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci if_tl.c if_tlreg.h
In-Reply-To: <199805220605.QAA06912@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Bruce Evans at "May 22, 98 04:05:51 pm"
To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 19:14:55 +1000 (EST)
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In some email I received from Bruce Evans, sie wrote:
> >> That may be so, but when the sources are committed to the tree proper,
> >> they shouldn't have ifdef version spaghetti.
> >
> >Hmmm.  Just to be sure I understand your position - are you saying
> >that sources should never use conditional compilation which depends
> >on the FreeBSD version number?  That seems...  Draconian.
> 
> Yes.

Nothing like making life hard for people developing non-core applications
for FreeBSD developers who (for one reason or another) are required to
support multiple versions of the OS in the source.

However, FreeBSD, in this, is acting just the same as the linux crowd is
and to be quite frank, IMHO it's just plain silliness.