From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 3 17:41:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA11272 for current-outgoing; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 17:41:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parkplace.cet.co.jp (parkplace.cet.co.jp [202.32.64.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA11263 for ; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 17:41:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (michaelh@localhost) by parkplace.cet.co.jp (8.7.5/CET-v2.1) with SMTP id AAA07717; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 00:40:51 GMT Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 09:40:51 +0900 (JST) From: Michael Hancock To: Richard Wackerbarth cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Food for thought In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 3 Sep 1996, Richard Wackerbarth wrote: > 1) Although I like the idea that "current" is readily available, forcing > new development to be done against it leads, IMHO, to making people use > something which is more unstable than what they need or desire. The > tradeoff is in the integration. It would be a disencentive for many developers if current didn't work this way. The solutions Jordan and Terry propose are in the right direction. Providing and making highly visible a buildable-current for the general public. Regards, Mike Hancock