Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 08:25:26 +0900 From: "Akinori MUSHA" <knu@iDaemons.org> To: Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Brian Somers <brian@freebsd-services.com>, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man1 builtin.1 src/bin/sh Makefile builtins.def sh.1 src/usr.bin/printf printf.1 Message-ID: <86lmgzaeqh.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org> In-Reply-To: <20011121145022.B63472@espresso.q9media.com> References: <sheldonh@starjuice.net> <5181.1006282330@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> <200111211058.fALAwDj01626@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> <8666844buz.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org> <20011121145022.B63472@espresso.q9media.com>
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At Wed, 21 Nov 2001 14:50:22 -0500,
Mike Barcroft wrote:
> Akinori MUSHA <knu@iDaemons.org> writes:
> > However, I'm not willing to MFC the removal to STABLE because it may
> > force the STABLE users to rewrite their hacked rc scripts, while we
> > don't need to care that much about the CURRENT users.
>
> That's a misconception. -CURRENT will eventually become -STABLE, so
> it's important that -CURRENT not be radically different from -STABLE.
I can't agree with that. CURRENT is supposed to change occasionally
radically.
CURRENT is CURRENT while it's CURRENT, not STABLE. Too many things
are already radically different from STABLE. Besides, we have more
than ten months before the 5.0-RELEASE.
> A new point-zero release is a good opportunity to change things that
> shouldn't be changed in an established branch, but doesn't give one
> carte blanche to make changes that make the transition from 4.x to 5.x
> even more difficult.
I don't get it. Please explain how the removal of the printf builtin
makes the transition more difficult, when all the system scripts have
been properly modified not to rely on it.
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