From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Aug 30 9:49:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from palrel3.hp.com (palrel3.hp.com [156.153.255.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B71937B422 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 09:49:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from adlmail.cup.hp.com (adlmail.cup.hp.com [15.0.100.30]) by palrel3.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB5A366C7; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 09:49:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cup.hp.com (gauss.cup.hp.com [15.28.97.152]) by adlmail.cup.hp.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18546)/8.9.3 SMKit7.02) with ESMTP id JAA23371; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 09:49:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <39AD3B1D.CFB294FC@cup.hp.com> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 12:49:33 -0400 From: Marcel Moolenaar Organization: Hewlett-Packard X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexey Zelkin Cc: Sheldon Hearn , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NO vs NO_ References: <200008301026.DAA50313@pike.osd.bsdi.com> <27283.967631991@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> <20000830185645.A32496@ark.cris.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [-committers removed] Alexey Zelkin wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 12:39:51PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > However, if you were to put magic in the RELENG_4 mk files (when the > > time came), you could translate deprecated names into their new names, > > possibly even generating warnings for each translation. I think it is mandatory for -stable and we probably should do it for -current as well. In -current, the automagical translation can be removed some time prior to the release. The reason for this is simply habit. Give people a change to get used to the new names, how ever they are going to look like. -- Marcel Moolenaar mail: marcel@cup.hp.com / marcel@FreeBSD.org tel: (408) 447-4222 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message