From owner-freebsd-current Sun Sep 6 06:42:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA18087 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 6 Sep 1998 06:42:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from catastrophe.gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us (fw-line-73.fwi.com [209.84.172.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA18080 for ; Sun, 6 Sep 1998 06:42:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from croyle@gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us) Received: from emerson.gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us (emerson.gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us [10.23.42.2]) by catastrophe.gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA29237; Sun, 6 Sep 1998 08:41:29 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from croyle@gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us) Received: (from croyle@localhost) by emerson.gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us (8.9.1/8.9.1) id IAA23043; Sun, 6 Sep 1998 08:41:28 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from croyle@gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us) To: John Birrell , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF References: <199809061209.WAA25996@cimlogic.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Don Croyle Date: 06 Sep 1998 08:41:28 -0500 Organization: Minimal at best In-Reply-To: John Birrell's message of "Sun, 6 Sep 1998 22:09:02 +1000 (EST)" Message-ID: <86af4dqrxz.fsf@emerson.gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us> Lines: 14 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.36/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Birrell writes: > I've said this before, and I'll say it again: Please wait until the > design of the elf ports system has been completed. Until then, any > work you do on ports may have to be re-done. The sort of person who has converted a system to ELF at this early date is exactly the sort of person who is going to want to convert everything *right* *now*. The longer it takes to get official fixes into the system, the more people will start rolling their own. Especially with the 3.0 release looming ever closer on the horizon. -- I've always wanted to be a dilettante, but I've never quite been ready to make the commitment. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message