Subject: Re: Q's on 4.4-lite userland integration
To: Luke Mewburn <lm@rmit.edu.au>
From: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@alpha.bostic.com>
List: current-users
Date: 07/26/1994 22:44:22
> Does netbsd-current use lots of net/2.untainted code in userland?

yes.

> If so, are there any plans to integrate 4.4-lite userland stuff,

yes.

> especially stuff that hasn't had netbsd-local changes?

yes, and even the stuff that has.

> If yes, can we get an approximate timeframe?

"hopefully by the time the next release is out the door."
Can't really say more than that.

> The reason why I'm interested is because I was going to (in my
> Infinite Spare Time :) compile a lot of the userland tree with
> -Wall or whatever, as well as with ld warnings for some non-ansi
> functions (bcopy, rindex), so I could make the code more portable.
> Not much use doing this on net/2 derived stuff if it's gunna be
> replaced by 4.4-lite stuff (which I have the source to locally as
> well.)

yah.  a lot of people have had similar needs, etc., and all i can
say is "we're getting to it as soon as we can."  priority one
right now is getting 1.0 out the door.


chris

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