From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 9 08:32:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA19812 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 9 Aug 1996 08:32:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sunrise.cs.berkeley.edu (root@sunrise.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.38.121]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA19758 for ; Fri, 9 Aug 1996 08:31:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by sunrise.cs.berkeley.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id IAA21620; Fri, 9 Aug 1996 08:29:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.6.12/8.6.12) id SAA17336; Fri, 9 Aug 1996 18:33:24 +0300 Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 18:33:24 +0300 (EET DST) From: Narvi To: Dennis cc: hackers%freebsd.org@sunrise.cs.berkeley.edu, jkh%time.cdrom.com@sunrise.cs.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: What are the plans for ELF support? In-Reply-To: <199608091501.LAA07670@etinc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 9 Aug 1996, Dennis wrote: > > > >jkh@time.cdrom.com said: > >:- we'll only switch to ELF if and when it demonstrates a set of > >:- advantages which outweigh the disadvantages of changing. > > And also to justify the extra work (and nightmares) of multiple object > support during the transition period.... And if FreeBSD is going to continue the tradition of backwards compatibility, someone will have to dream up a new way of doing the compat dists - compat1x, 2x, 21, etc. Sander > > Dennis > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Emerging Technologies, Inc. http://www.etinc.com > > Synchronous Communications Cards and Routers For > Discriminating Tastes. 56k to T1 and beyond. Frame > Relay, PPP, HDLC, and X.25 for BSD/OS, FreeBSD > and LINUX > >