HEADS UP! Major commits in the tree coming soon

[Bosko Milekic]

For the benefit of the majority:  This post was FAKE.

Now please return to your regularly scheduled discussion and kindly
ignore all future posts to this thread.

-Bosko

On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 01:50:33PM -0400, Kenneth Culver wrote:
> > The HEAD code freeze was extended by three days to
> > allow for some final pending work to be committed and
> > prepare 5.1 to be a good release. The code freeze will
> >
> > likely end sometime tomorrow, May 30.
> >
> > We ask that large scale changes still be deferred
> > until after 5.1 is actually released so that any
> >  problems can be dealt with.  The release
> > engineering team will send out emails explicitely
> > stating when HEAD has thawed and when large changes
> > like new compilers and dynamic-linked worlds can go
> > it.
> >
> > The most important changes I'm going to commit today:
> >
> > - Remove gcc and replace it with a new TenDRA
> > snapshot.
> 
> I'm just wondering... but is there a reason why gcc is being replaced? Is
> there a page or a previous list mail that explains the reasons? URL?
> Thanks.
> 
> > - Remove GNU tar.
> > - Fix httpd.ko to make it work on buggy AMD
> > processors.
> > - Drop support for 386 and 486 cpus.
> > - Remove ext2 support (GPL encumbered).
> > - Add perl 5.8 *and* python 2.2 to base.
> > - Remove Sendmail and replace it with Postfix.
> >
> > If anyone has any reason why these should not be
> > committed, I'll give a 5 hours grace time. Send
> > replies
> > to the list.
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> >  Thorsten and the rest or the release engineering team.
> >
> Thanks
> 
> Ken
> 
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