Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 13:54:47 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r225937 - in head: . release release/amd64 release/i386 release/ia64 release/pc98 release/powerpc release/scripts release/sparc64 usr.sbin usr.sbin/sysinstall Message-ID: <CDBA04EF-69EE-47F2-A1FC-D00428AE1650@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4E8A209E.8010407@FreeBSD.org> References: <201110031513.p93FD9ev015593@svn.freebsd.org> <4E8A209E.8010407@FreeBSD.org>
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On Oct 3, 2011, at 1:52 PM, Doug Barton wrote: > On 10/03/2011 08:13, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: >> Author: nwhitehorn >> Date: Mon Oct 3 15:13:09 2011 >> New Revision: 225937 >> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/225937 >>=20 >> Log: >> Farewall, sysinstall! You served us well for many years, but 10.0 is = one >> digit beyond your time. >=20 > sysinstall had (at least) 2 primary purposes, installation, and > post-install system configuration. The new installer is a good step > towards the first goal, but we currently have nothing to fulfill the > second role. For that reason I think this step is premature. >=20 > One could also make the case that this is exactly the kind of = disruptive > change that the release engineer asked us not to do until the release = is > done, but I'll leave that to them to deal with. :) FWIW, I thought timeline between deprecation and deletion was at least 2 = releases too.. -Garrett=
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