From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 19 5:41:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 906CE14FE8; Sat, 19 Jun 1999 05:41:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.1) id OAA86085; Sat, 19 Jun 1999 14:41:26 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des) To: Ruslan Ermilov Cc: ugen@xonix.com, green@unixhelp.org, committers@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Introduction References: <37693FCF.608FA855@xonix.com> <19990618221558.A71643@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 19 Jun 1999 14:41:26 +0200 In-Reply-To: Ruslan Ermilov's message of "Fri, 18 Jun 1999 22:15:58 +0300" Message-ID: Lines: 14 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ruslan Ermilov writes: > * Clean the existing code (both userland and kernel) (10-20% done) > * Re-design the ipfw's API > * Port the existing functionality to the new API > * Proceed with new features Pretty please with sugar on top, design an API that can be extended without breaking binary compatibility. We've had too much of that for no good reason (at least once between 2.2.7 and 2.2.8, and once between 3.1 and 3.2). DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message