Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 08:30:39 -0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Patch for FILE problems (was Re: -CURRENT is bad for me...) Message-ID: <200102131630.f1DGUdU64790@mobile.wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <200102131607.LAA30774@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Garrett Wollman wrote: > <<On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 07:38:40 -0800, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> said: > > > There is no concept of "forward" or "backward" as far as the toolchain and > > runtime support goes. There is only "filename exists" or "file not found". > > This is a human-factors issue, not a code issue. People expect to see > version numbers increasing. The proposal as it presently stands is to never let these reach beta or -release. -current developers can deal with this just fine, it is the least of their problems. However, some want these in -release too... But that is a long way away. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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