cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen fts-compat.c fts-compat.h

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Mon Aug 27 12:40:06 PDT 2007


On Monday 27 August 2007 02:57:41 pm Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> Sorry for top posting, but...
> 
> I agree very strongly with Warner, in short, if possible, reducing the
> number of major gotchas of running current will make our developer
> and early adopters a lot happier.
> 
> It will help FreeBSD.
> 
> One of the things that turns me off to FreeBSD is the feeling that
> I get that certain people take some kind of pride in forcing users
> to go through dangerous and complex hoops in order to run current.
> 
> It shouldn't be so if the overhead of making it easier is so small.

It has zero to do with pride, but it does have a lot to do with allowing HEAD 
to be a branch for development as opposed to the stable branches that are 
more intended with deployment.  Those are quite different feature sets.

-- 
John Baldwin


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