[HEADSUP] IPX and NWFS to be killed in -current.

Greg 'groggy' Lehey grog at FreeBSD.org
Mon Dec 6 15:03:13 PST 2004


On Monday,  6 December 2004 at 18:03:34 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1041206165120.74271A-100000 at fledge.watson.org>, Robe
> rt Watson writes:
>
>>> We are aiming 6.X at production readiness around start of 2006.
>>>
>>> By that time IPX and NWFS are not really interesting and nobody seems to
>>> be interested in doing the SMPng work on them.
>>>
>> I'm not necessarily opposed to removing IPX/SPX on the basis that it
>> is hardly a mainstream protocol component anymore, but I think it's
>> probably not accurate to say that no one is interested in doing the
>> locking work for the IPX parts (since I'm working on it :-).
>
> That's cool, but there are so many other things I'd rather want to see
> you spend your time on.

Why don't you leave that kind of decision to the people who run the
project?  Your intentions appear to be at variance with those of the
two members of core who have responded.

Greg
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