From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 10 16:50:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA11308 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 16:50:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA11289 for ; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 16:50:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA01175; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:50:03 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199712110050.TAA01175@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: OS Ports In-Reply-To: from "J. Weatherbee - Senior Systems Architect" at "Dec 10, 97 01:26:31 pm" To: jamil@acroal.com (J. Weatherbee - Senior Systems Architect) Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:50:03 -0500 (EST) Cc: jasone@canonware.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk J. Weatherbee - Senior Systems Architect said: > > Wouldn't porting -stable first be a better project, after all you want a > quality product and that is what stable is. > Respectfully, it probably would not be a good idea, but it would be better to start from a recent, stable -current. It is *much* easier to get support from the developers on -current. -stable is approaching a year old now. -- John dyson@freebsd.org jdyson@nc.com