From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Feb 1 09:08:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-stable Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA10516 for stable-outgoing; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 09:08:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from eel.dataplex.net (EEL.DATAPLEX.NET [199.183.109.245]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA10501 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 09:08:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from [199.183.109.242] (cod [199.183.109.242]) by eel.dataplex.net (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA16562; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 11:03:04 -0600 X-Sender: rkw@shark.dataplex.net Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 11:03:06 -0600 To: "Andrew V. Stesin" From: Richard Wackerbarth Subject: Re: What I'd like to see brought to -stable Cc: stable@freebsd.org Sender: owner-stable@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk "Andrew V. Stesin" writes: ># > 2. "phk malloc" by Paul Henning Kampf. It's one of the best performance ># ># Have all the wailing applications been cleaned up? Last I heard, ># there was still some userland stuff complaining about malloc ># conditions. I'd kinda like to see all of those found and fixed before ># declaring this malloc ready for -stable. > > I think that it will be wise to add it to -stable-SNAP > and all occurences of weird apps will be found in a week by > the happy -stable users, me among them. ;-) IMHO, including it at this time would create some VERY UNHAPPY -stable users. If we even suspect that there is a problem, we MUST check it out in -current first. > And better have fixed apps for 2.1.5 (or will it be 2.1-Gold?) > than silently broken ones? That's my arguments. Why should it skip to 2.1.5? 2.1.1 is a very nice number. ># > 4. A new groff (1.10). It's way nice to have direct LaserJet printing! ># ># Hmmm. > > Gm. Yes, it's probably too specific for me. I already > dropped groff stolen from -current to /usr/src and reinstalled it; > just Ok, so please forget this. Everyone who wants it > will go this way, too. This is just what YOU should do to test things out. Start with -stable and then add the thing you wish to test from -current. If it works well, it can become a candidate for inclusion in -stable. ---- Richard Wackerbarth rkw@dataplex.net