From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 10 12:34:17 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2ACF716A4BF for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2003 12:34:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EC4D43FA3 for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2003 12:34:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h8AJYEnW077883; Wed, 10 Sep 2003 12:34:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h8AJYDtT077882; Wed, 10 Sep 2003 12:34:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 12:34:13 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Steve Kargl Message-ID: <20030910193413.GC77756@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <3F5F2774.9010408@gmx.net> <20030910144620.GA2438@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <3F5F420B.5030202@gmx.net> <20030910165645.GA2839@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030910165645.GA2839@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Quo vadis, -CURRENT? (recent changes to cc & compatibility) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 19:34:17 -0000 On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 09:56:45AM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote: > > >4.9 and 5.0-R are independent branch. By your logic we should wait to > > >4.10 or 4.11 or 4.12 or ... before any substantial change can be made > > >to -CURRENT. > > > > The point is that is isn't wise to commit a change like the -pthread > > deprecation that breaks many ports just before a ports-freeze. > > Which threads library should -pthread link to your app (libc_r, > libkse, or libthr) on a 5.x system? It should be a stub that libmap then maps to the threading lib you wanted. Or variations on this. If you have a strong interest in this there is a long discussion about this going on.