tags 18648 + wontfix
stop
On 10/07/2014 05:00 AM, Philip Guenther wrote:
On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 7:51 PM, Richard Hansen <rhan...@bbn.com> wrote:
...
Digging around in various CVS/Subversion repositories, it looks like
there are many old (but perhaps not yet museum-worthy) *BSD versions
that behave this way:
* NetBSD 4.x and older (5.0 released April 2009). see: [1] [2]
* FreeBSD 3.1.x and older (3.2 released May 1999). see: [3] [4]
* OpenBSD 2.x and older (3.0 released Dec 2001). see [5]
Speaking on behalf of the OpenBSD project: OpenBSD 2.x should be
considered dead, buried, rotted, and worthy of derision. History is
history: useful to study, but if you try to live there you will die of
horrific diseases. Do not hold up progress on the basis that you'll
trip over a 12+ year old release.
Philip Guenther
guent...@openbsd.org
I belatedly agree with Philip. Even the last "free" BSD release to be
affected (NetBSD 4.0) is 5 and a half years old, and in the fast-moving
scenario of today's computing that sounds like a different geological
era, IMHO. We should not allow the habits the autotools community had
to develop "under duress" during the Unix wars period to affect today's
progress.
