From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Dec 7 17:57:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA20716 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 17:57:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason05.u.washington.edu (jason05.u.washington.edu [140.142.78.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA20708 for ; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 17:57:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul5.u.washington.edu (root@saul5.u.washington.edu [140.142.83.3]) by jason05.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id RAA15552 for ; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 17:56:58 -0800 Received: from S8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul5.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id RAA12660 for ; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 17:56:58 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 17:56:32 -0800 (PST) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" To: FreeBSD-chat Subject: Re: Beta Testers For Applixware? In-Reply-To: <199812072353.PAA00898@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, Mike Smith wrote: >> BTW, will it be ELF, a.out, or both ??? >> I pre-ordered it, but I don't know what I'll receive. I am glad WC made >> it, after all. > >It will probably be a.out, built to run against a 2.2.x system. It >will be tested on both 2.2.x and 3.0. This makes business sense but... # This part of build should be regarded as deprecated and you should _not_ # expect to be able to do this past the release of 3.1. You have exactly # one major release to move entirely to elf. and loosely "FreeBSD is not going to be a pick your binary format system," stated by sources unremembered. Based on the above, I have already -DNOAOUTed my entire system. I hope it's trivial to put AOUT support back in. I am really looking forward to trying Applixware as a better alternative to StarOffice. 3.0 _is_ RELEASE. Maybe we should treat it as such. I get the feeling the 3.0-RELEASE is the redheaded step child of the FreeBSD world. "Sure we put it on our web page but you might want to run 2.2.8 instead." Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message