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Subject: Re: svn commit: r248084 - in head/sys: amd64/amd64 arm/arm
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On 7/9/13 12:39 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> wrote:
> In general (as most devs know), anytime that __FreeBSD_version__ needs 
> to be bumped for a change, there really should be an exp- run. I would 
> hope that intuition would at least allow a chicken switch between APIs 
> for a period of time so that people could at least be allowed time to 
> transition code over and then make the change. 

Can't an email hook be put in place to automatically spin one off based 
on commits to the file that change it?

Tinderportsbox?

-Alfred