From owner-cvs-all Mon May 3 3:36:12 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from spinner.netplex.com.au (spinner.netplex.com.au [202.12.86.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0D9A15435; Mon, 3 May 1999 03:36:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spinner.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1D8D1F50; Mon, 3 May 1999 18:35:53 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: asami@FreeBSD.org (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) Cc: mark@grondar.za, jb@cimlogic.com.au, eivind@FreeBSD.org, obrien@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc make.conf In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 03 May 1999 01:25:00 MST." <199905030825.BAA82662@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 18:35:53 +0800 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <19990503103602.E1D8D1F50@spinner.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami wrote: > * From: Mark Murray > * > * John Birrell wrote: > * > For 4.x-current, I don't think we should support source upgrades from > * > old aout releases. There are too many combinations to test and I doubt > * > that anyone has enough hardware and enough spare time to repeatedly > * > work on this stuff. > * > * Is that an official core-type decision? I can happily live with it. > > Speaking for myself, I agree. I don't think it's unreasonable to > require 2.2.x or 3-aout users to go through 3-elf if they want to > upgrade to 4-elf. I tend to agree. Going from 2.x to 3.x is a small burden for the end user as a stepping stone to get to 4.x compared to the nightmares that we will have in order to make 2.x -> 4.0-current work. I personally think that 4.0's 'make world' should be only required to work from systems no older than (say) 3.0-elf, and even that's generous - 3.0-RELEASE is quite old by today's standards. Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message