Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 09:32:12 -0800 (PST) From: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: terry@lambert.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com, mrl@teleport.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: When is 2.2 Estimated to be released? Message-ID: <Pine.AUX.3.91.960307092829.8317A-100000@covina.lightside.com> In-Reply-To: <199603071649.JAA14066@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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On Thu, 7 Mar 1996, Terry Lambert wrote: > I'd like to see the code differential from 2.1.0 to 2.1.5 be the same > as the code differential between 2.0.5 and 2.1.0. > > We've already established the value of a 0.0.5 increment. > > What I think the improvements you noted represent is ~0.0.1 compared > to the increment change for 2.1.0. > > I think a 2.1.5 would have to include fixes to the install process > (without breaking gzip image loading). > > I think a 2.2.0 would need to include the PCMCIA support and the > 4.4BSD-Lite2 integration, which were announced for it. > > Just my opinions, though... > > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org I think what we need for 2.1.5 is a stand-alone version of the fdisk/partition utility from /stand/sysinstall. I never did master the concept of poking magic numbers into /etc/format.dat and our heinous command-line fdisk utilities. I thought somebody had done a code drop of this into a stand-alone program some time ago. What ever happened to that? I wouldn't mind if /stand/sysinstall was hacked to allow fdisk/partition/formatting WITHOUT having to pretend we are reinstalling the operating system. If it is a standalone, I suggest "format" as the name, since that meshes with what SunOS/Solaris uses. Comments??? I think this is _very_ important for the next release, and not very difficult to do. ---Jake
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