Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 11:08:27 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net> Subject: Re: FreeBSD-10 -> FreeBSD-9.9 ? Message-ID: <4EB3C854-0F7A-4A06-AE83-B9C6ACAB67A9@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <4773.1319529109@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <4773.1319529109@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Oct 25, 2011, at 1:51 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <201110250918.28709.hselasky@c2i.net>, Hans Petter Selasky = writes: >=20 >> Why not use 9.5.x ? >=20 > I'm surprised that people even ask: Because FreeBSD is all about > doing things right and solve problems, rather than just kludge around > them ? 9.9 is a kludge until the auto config scripts that still "support" = freebsd 1.x due to some mistaken cargo-cult programming are fixed to = de-stupify them. That code has been cut and paste for like 18 years, = but maybe for the past 13 years it hasn't worked in the projects it used = to work on (since they've moved on) and in many it never worked and = likely hasn't been tested in at least 10 years due to the difficulty in = even getting FreeBSD 1.x systems to test with prior to the lifting of = the bans put in place to settle the AT&T lawsuit. As such, the offending code should be fixed, not just patched around = with bogus version numbers. Warner
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