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

[Nathan Whitehorn]

On 10/03/11 15:54, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> 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

I had thought the intention was to let it remain in 9.0 indefinitely and 
then to remove it from 10 (which gives sysinstall a more than 20-year 
run). I brought this up early last week on the freebsd-sysinstall list, 
to no objections and some encouragement. It can be reverted, of course, 
if people would prefer that.
-Nathan