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Date:      Sun, 3 Aug 1997 16:17:44 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tom <tom@uniserve.com>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com>, Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Make this a relese coordinator decision (was Re: ports-current/packages-current discontinued) 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970803161657.4572A-100000@shell.uniserve.com>
In-Reply-To: <3251.870637447@time.cdrom.com>

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On Sun, 3 Aug 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> >   Key point here.  Basically no one can stop developers from making
> > current incompatible with stable.  Basically, if current developers agree
> > not to break compatibility, the problem goes away.
> 
> As nice as that sounds, I think such an agreement would be ultimately
> stifling (remember: current was formed exactly so that such concerns
> would not be an issue - where did we lose this along the way? :).

  Perhaps the limits can be set on what things can be broken?  After all
port compatibility doesn't require that much...

> 					Jordan
> 

Tom




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