From owner-cvs-all Fri May 22 10:06:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA26390 for cvs-all-outgoing; Fri, 22 May 1998 10:06:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA26364; Fri, 22 May 1998 10:06:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA09041; Fri, 22 May 1998 05:12:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199805221212.FAA09041@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Darren Reed cc: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans), jkh@time.cdrom.com, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-sys@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci if_tl.c if_tlreg.h In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 22 May 1998 19:14:55 +1000." <199805220915.TAA13747@avalon.reed.wattle.id.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 05:12:18 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > In some email I received from Bruce Evans, sie wrote: > > >> That may be so, but when the sources are committed to the tree proper, > > >> they shouldn't have ifdef version spaghetti. > > > > > >Hmmm. Just to be sure I understand your position - are you saying > > >that sources should never use conditional compilation which depends > > >on the FreeBSD version number? That seems... Draconian. > > > > Yes. > > Nothing like making life hard for people developing non-core applications > for FreeBSD developers who (for one reason or another) are required to > support multiple versions of the OS in the source. > > However, FreeBSD, in this, is acting just the same as the linux crowd is > and to be quite frank, IMHO it's just plain silliness. Bruce != FreeBSD -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message