From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 20 14:31:57 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id OAA14823 for current-outgoing; Mon, 20 Feb 1995 14:31:57 -0800 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id OAA14799 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 1995 14:31:47 -0800 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA04916; Mon, 20 Feb 95 15:24:47 MST From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9502202224.AA04916@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: libcompat and shlib conflict To: ache@astral.msk.su (Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage) Date: Mon, 20 Feb 95 15:24:47 MST Cc: ljo@po.CWRU.Edu, current@freefall.cdrom.com, nate@trout.sri.MT.net, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com In-Reply-To: from "Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage" at Feb 20, 95 10:37:44 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >The cost of the cruft should be bourne by the crufty program. > > Too many crufty pgms in the world. You don't have enough power > to teach whole world which functions to use. You can make teaching them the default if you are willing to further obfuscate or even kill libcompat, IMO. The programs people really want will end up fixed because they have no other choice. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.