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At 10:39 AM +0200 10/14/03, Harti Brandt wrote:
>  I guess we have to do this work before 2038, don't we? If
>  we don't do it before 5.2 we have to stick with this until
>  6.0. Correct?

While the project has been taking a mighty long time to get
to "5.x-stable", I do think we should make it to "6.x-stable"
before 2038...

I do wish we could go for 64-bit times.  However, I do not
agree that we can just keep tossing in major API changes
to the 5.x branch.  We will never get to 5.x-stable if we
constantly add major API changes to the 5.x branch.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu