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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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