From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 12 17:27:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6809B37B491 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:27:24 -0800 (PST) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.2/8.11.1) id f1D1RId08804; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:27:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:27:18 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Peter Wemm Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Patch for FILE problems (was Re: -CURRENT is bad for me...) Message-ID: <20010212172717.M3038@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200102130120.f1D1KpU56194@mobile.wemm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200102130120.f1D1KpU56194@mobile.wemm.org>; from peter@netplex.com.au on Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 05:20:51PM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 05:20:51PM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote: > It avoids the current problem: > - RELENG_4 bumped from 3.0 to 4.0 > - this forced a premature 4.0->5.0 bump in -current Actually "NO". I bumped libc.so because Garret said he had changes ready for libc, but was waiting for someone to bump the shared version number. > - we missed our chance for major changes. (!!!) In the past, once it was bumped, incompatable changes to libc.so were fair game for -CURRENT. > If we had taken -current to 500, we could go to 501, 502, etc as > required to stop killing our developers, and prior to entering 5.0-BETA we > go back to the next sequentially available major number (be it 5, or 6 > if RELENG_4 bumps again). /me wonders if we'll also do something about all the other things we do that kills our developers in -current...... -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message