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From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
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On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 10:37:22AM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
> and I are saying about having a justification for changes.
..
> The ctype ABI change 
> isn't like that at all; it's mandatory and it can't be
> worked around.  We also asked that even justifiable changes be evaluated
> to see if there was any work-around to avoid breakage.  Several have 
> already been suggested for the ctype change.

Certainly implementing something in an alternate way that doesn't cause
an forward incompatibility in  RELENG_* is a Good Thing and should be
strived for.  It is nice that in this case it looks like we have this
choice of implementations.

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-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)