From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 9 11:50: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sm0101.promedia.net (sm0101.promedia.net [208.131.40.4]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E47E41E9; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 11:50:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from softcom.net (ppp-208-171-196-79.01.promedia.net [208.171.196.79]) by sm0101.promedia.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA12618; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 11:52:16 -0800 Message-ID: <38A1C655.49AF31F8@softcom.net> Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 11:56:05 -0800 From: "Jonathan H. Ballard" Organization: Cybertronix X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Pat Lynch , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, tlambert@primenet.com, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.3 to 3.4 changes in Cplusplus affect FreeBSD source References: <38A1966C.21C8199C@softcom.net> <20000209111917.W17536@fw.wintelcom.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > * Jonathan H. Ballard [000209 08:51] wrote: > > Sound technical advocacy is part of the stand I have taken. The > > reasonable factor I hope appears as we chat about C++ vs C and the > > affect of FreeBSD source. > > Could we drop this? There's no 'discussion' to be had, you have 2 > choices: > > a) upgrade the entire system > b) install a newer C compiler from the ports tree avoiding a system > upgrade. > > Since for some reason 'a' offends you, then I suggest trying option > 'b'. what happen to c) free to chose (more alternatives) "FreeBSD is Free" > > > > >From my point of view it appears C++ used to be modularized > > and now it is more a tighter knit towards the core > > development. C++ is a language with strictness. > > This strictness might not be flexible enough stableness. > > (more...) > > say what? oops ... this strictness might not be flexible enough in stableness > > (and in the news Yahoo and other sites got DOS attacks... > > and they run on FreeBSD...yet just something extra > > to advocate) > > huh? > > > > Maybe this should be kept to freebsd-advocacy. > > > > No it shouldn't, perhaps freebsd-twilightzone. let me know when the subscription works > I'd rather you just drop the subject, again you have several choices: > > a) use the port. > b) cvsup/upgrade (see: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/stable.html) > c) use the port. > d) look at the change that was made: > (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src) and try to 'backport' it > to your version of 3.3 and recompile it > e) USE THE PORT. > f) USE THE PORT. > g) USE THE PORT. > > got it? "use the port" means? ack it is hard to advocate the technicalness of this reply -- cybertronix@softcom.net jon.ballard@usa.net http://www.softcom.net/users/cybertronix Save a Tree ~ Know how Too 8D CopyRight Ballard To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message