From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 17 14:37:25 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 535FB16A46E for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:37:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Albert.Shih@obspm.fr) Received: from mesiob.obspm.fr (mesiob.obspm.fr [145.238.2.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD5AF13C50B for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:37:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Albert.Shih@obspm.fr) Received: from localhost (pcjas.obspm.fr [145.238.184.3]) by mesiob.obspm.fr (8.13.4/8.13.4/SIO Observatoire de Paris) with ESMTP id l9HEbMSG010605; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:37:22 +0200 Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:37:21 +0200 From: Albert Shih To: Erich Dollansky Message-ID: <20071017143721.GH67677@pcjas.obspm.fr> References: <20071017133352.GE67677@pcjas.obspm.fr> <47161B5D.9050002@pacific.net.sg> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <47161B5D.9050002@pacific.net.sg> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (mesiob.obspm.fr [145.238.2.2]); Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:37:22 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.91.2, clamav-milter version 0.91.2 on mesiob.obspm.fr X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why 7.0 is so late ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Albert.Shih@obspm.fr List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:37:25 -0000 Le 17/10/2007 à 22:25:33+0800, Erich Dollansky a écrit > Hi, > > Albert Shih wrote: >> Hi all >> Anyone known why this time the release of 7.0 is so late ? In generaly the >> date on http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html is alway very optimist. >> But this time it's almost 5 mounth (annonced june 2007). > > while companies like Microsoft must publish in time to make the share > holders happy, FreeBSD can afford to wait until the programmers are > convinced that their work is good enough for the public. Yes this thing I known (I'm working with FreeBSD since 4.1). My question is not very clear, what I'm asking is where, in what part of the code of 7.x, are the problems. In the ULE ? in compatibility between ports and gcc 4.2, ZFS, etc... Regards. -- Albert SHIH Observatoire de Paris Meudon SIO batiment 15 Téléphone : 01 45 07 76 26 Heure local/Local time: Mer 17 oct 2007 16:34:51 CEST