From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 17 22:36:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D6C737B402 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 22:36:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0I6Zws43427; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 23:35:58 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Message-Id: <200101180635.f0I6Zws43427@harmony.village.org> To: Greg Lehey Subject: Re: HEADS UP: I386_CPU Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 17 Jan 2001 23:35:39 +1100." <20010117233539.C9153@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> References: <20010117233539.C9153@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> <200101160947.f0G9lKs11014@mobile.wemm.org> <20010116092843.A1858@puck.firepipe.net> <20010117162115.C7752@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> <20010117191618.K1761@puck.firepipe.net> Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 23:35:58 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20010117233539.C9153@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> Greg Lehey writes: : > Of course. But of these people, which really need 5.x's features over : > 4.x? : : I thought about that, too. I came to the conclusion "probably not", : but 4.x won't be maintained for ever. Compiler technology maybe? But maintainence and "mind share" with the main FreeBSD developer team are also issues that someone in this situation will need to consider. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message