Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 12:44:19 +1000 (EST) From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> To: proff@suburbia.net Cc: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au, terry@lambert.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: detecting kernel version at compile time Message-ID: <199704120250.TAA09903@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <19970411002900.15347.qmail@suburbia.net> from "proff@suburbia.net" at Apr 11, 97 10:28:59 am
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In some mail from proff@suburbia.net, sie said: > > > You are deceiving yourselves if you think you are just making life > > easier for everyone. Any change implies more work from 3rd party > > developers to accomodate that change. > > Right but look at the alternative (attached below). You can quite > rightly say that this horror is required regardless. But the reality > is that the present does indeed become the past and in two years > time one can expect users to be running at least what we have as > -current now. That is why it is important to create an environment > that accommodates change as soon as possible, so during the course > of the next two years monstrosity below can be reduced to: > > #include <sys/param.h> [...] Here here.
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