svn commit: r225937 - in head: . release release/amd64 release/i386 release/ia64 release/pc98 release/powerpc release/scripts release/sparc64 usr.sbin usr.sbin/sysinstall

[Garrett Cooper]

On Oct 3, 2011, at 1:52 PM, Doug Barton wrote:

> On 10/03/2011 08:13, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
>> Author: nwhitehorn
>> Date: Mon Oct  3 15:13:09 2011
>> New Revision: 225937
>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/225937
>> 
>> Log:
>>  Farewall, sysinstall! You served us well for many years, but 10.0 is one
>>  digit beyond your time.
> 
> sysinstall had (at least) 2 primary purposes, installation, and
> post-install system configuration. The new installer is a good step
> towards the first goal, but we currently have nothing to fulfill the
> second role. For that reason I think this step is premature.
> 
> One could also make the case that this is exactly the kind of disruptive
> change that the release engineer asked us not to do until the release is
> done, but I'll leave that to them to deal with. :)

FWIW, I thought timeline between deprecation and deletion was at least 2 releases too..
-Garrett