From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Apr 10 13:53:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (GndRsh.dnsmgr.net [198.145.92.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B4A837B423 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 13:53:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net) Received: (from freebsd@localhost) by gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA36777; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 13:53:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <200104102053.NAA36777@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Subject: Re: Releases In-Reply-To: <200104101933.f3AJXYe81872@ns1.unixathome.org> from Dan Langille at "Apr 10, 2001 03:33:23 pm" To: dan@langille.org Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 13:53:08 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ... > > > Though many have called this a bikeshed, and at times I have agreed > > that a lot of what is being said is a bikeshed (names are names, people who > > attatch permanent fixed meaning to names are going to have problems > > understanding lots of things, the -STABLE, -RELEASE, -BETA, -CURRENT tags > > being one of them.) But I have seen 2 things come up in this last round of > > this 8 year old thread that could actually use some fixing: > > > > a) Rename the standard-supfile, that one in itself has caused a lot > > of grief and is a trivial change with minimal impact to the masses as > > it really should only be used by -developers, who know how to deal with > > all this. > > Renaming is a fine idea. What about one more step. Remove it > altogether. The people that need it already know how to create it. How > does that sound? I could go along with removing it from the -STABLE branch, after all those are the people that keep blowing there toes off because we have left a loaded gun laying in front of them and they don't seem to be able to read the instructions we have placed on it... (actually having gone and looked at it, this file could surely use a big fat Warning in the top of it (and probably one in the README too!)!). ... -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message