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Christopher Vance wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 05:01:28PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> 
>> The USB code in RELENG_4 has been updated to match that in -current.
>> Please test any USB devices that are critical to you BEFORE we release
>> 4.10 :-)
> 
> 
> <gentle flame="no">
> Would the effort to keep making 4.X releases be better spent making
> 5.X stable, or are the two efforts not competing for the same
> developer resources?
> </gentle>

Keeping the code bases closer together will probably make development 
easier, not harder.  Also, this USB code will now be tested on more 
hardware before the release of 4.10 or 5.3.  I wouldn't be surprised if 
someone running -stable on strange hardware finds a bug that needs 
fixing on both -stable and -current.

Seems like a win/win to me.

Richard Coleman
richardcoleman@mindspring.com