Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 11:08:27 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net> Subject: Re: FreeBSD-10 -> FreeBSD-9.9 ? Message-ID: <4EB3C854-0F7A-4A06-AE83-B9C6ACAB67A9@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <4773.1319529109@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <4773.1319529109@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Oct 25, 2011, at 1:51 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <201110250918.28709.hselasky@c2i.net>, Hans Petter Selasky writes: > >> Why not use 9.5.x ? > > I'm surprised that people even ask: Because FreeBSD is all about > doing things right and solve problems, rather than just kludge around > them ? 9.9 is a kludge until the auto config scripts that still "support" freebsd 1.x due to some mistaken cargo-cult programming are fixed to de-stupify them. That code has been cut and paste for like 18 years, but maybe for the past 13 years it hasn't worked in the projects it used to work on (since they've moved on) and in many it never worked and likely hasn't been tested in at least 10 years due to the difficulty in even getting FreeBSD 1.x systems to test with prior to the lifting of the bans put in place to settle the AT&T lawsuit. As such, the offending code should be fixed, not just patched around with bogus version numbers. Warner
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