From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 27 15:37:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA11205 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 27 Sep 1996 15:37:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.utexas.edu ([128.83.126.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA11153 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 1996 15:37:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail-queue invoked by uid 0); 27 Sep 1996 22:36:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.utexas.edu) (128.83.126.1) by smtp.utexas.edu with SMTP; 27 Sep 1996 22:36:37 -0000 Received: from [208.2.87.4] (cod.dataplex.net [208.2.87.4]) by mail.utexas.edu (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id RAA01685; Fri, 27 Sep 1996 17:36:35 -0500 X-Sender: rkw@eel.dataplex.net Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 17:36:36 -0500 To: John Polstra From: rkw@dataplex.net (Richard Wackerbarth) Subject: Re: libz.so.1.0 where are you? Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >Libz is now a standard part of the system. Once that happened, the port >was removed. Remember, the ports are designed for -current; they won't >always work for older versions of FreeBSD. I consider this to be a poor standard. We need to provide at least some support for the last release. Is there some reason that the library was not brought into the -stable tree? When we remove a port from -current, we SHOULD move it to some compatability location and maintain it there until it is no longer needed.