Subject: Re: NetBSD 2.0 release date
To: Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/04/2003 12:17:49
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On Dec 4, 2003, at 11:30 AM, Greywolf wrote:

> I have a question, though -- since we're migrating to 2.0, the major
> bump represents, to me, a new starting ground, a new plateau, more
> or less fresh and clean.  Do we intend to be backward compatible with
> 1.x, or can we just declare a cut-off point and move forward with a bit
> less baggage (such as, i.e., libc.so.12)?

Not without screwing over basically the entire user-base.

         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>


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