Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 15:40:35 +1100 From: Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: "Matthew N. Dodd" <mdodd@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: RFC: doscmd removal Message-ID: <20040314044035.GA22354@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0403132217410.22530-100000@pancho> References: <20040314034949.GA22121@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0403132217410.22530-100000@pancho>
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On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 10:24:56PM -0600, Mark Linimon wrote: > On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Tim Robbins wrote: > > Even assuming that it works perfectly (which it does not), do you honestly > > believe that MS-DOS emulation is so widely useful that it needs to be in > > the base system instead of the ports collection? > > This sounds like a good candidate for something to be done in 6.0, > leaving it 5.x for an appropriate deprecation period. > > I mean, my understanding is that 5 is supposed to be the new > STABLE in ... what, just a few weeks, anyways? That seems reasonable - I will wait until 6.0 then. Tim
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