From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 13 8:32:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mobile.wemm.org (c1315225-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [65.0.135.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5793A37B503 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 08:32:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mobile.wemm.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f1DGUdU64790; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 08:30:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Message-Id: <200102131630.f1DGUdU64790@mobile.wemm.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Garrett Wollman Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Patch for FILE problems (was Re: -CURRENT is bad for me...) In-Reply-To: <200102131607.LAA30774@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 08:30:39 -0800 From: Peter Wemm Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Garrett Wollman wrote: > < 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