src-4

[Julian Stacey]

Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> RELENG_4 seems to have reached its end of line.  I am contemplating 
> closing src-4.  What do you people think?  (It is actually very little 
> effort for me to keep it going, so if anyone has any reason whatsoever 
> to keep it open, I will do so - I am only contemplating closing for 
> housekeeping reasons.)

I have various machines (some on 6, but some) stuck on 4:
   - 5 doesnt install on some laptops,
   - There's an fdisk systctl pain with newer fdisk affecting the 
     console-less scanner http://www.berklix.com/scanjet/
   - gnokii (nokia coms port) fails on 6, works on 4 (I've largely dropped 5)
   - one of my public servers on 4 (that will change)
   - I've even got a genuine 386 in tiny chassis runs 4.11 - &
     suspicion about lower performance if upgrading to 5 or 6.

Probably there's lots of boxes & users out there, who/ which still use 4.
They probably just don't correspond with FreeBSD policy makers,
I'd suggest leave 4 CTMs in place for a while, Thanks Stephen.

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