Re: Status of revivesa

[Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>]

christos%astron.com@localhost wrote:

> >I wonder if the binary compatibility for pthread is
> >a serious showstopper, i.e. it's really more important
> >than other new features like MPsafe syscalls or
> >WAPBL etc. for most ordinary users.
> 
> >Can't we defer revivesa to 5.1, as fixsa on 4.1?
> >Users who actually need working SA support could use
> >(forthcomming) 4.1 with fixsa and I guess there are
> >quite few such users.
> 
> Once you release 5.0 without revive-sa you have screwed the users
> who want to upgrade from 4.x to 5.0. Adding it to 5.1 or announcing
> that you are going to add it in 5.1 wil just hurt the adoption of
> 5.0 or just hurt the users who will not wait.

In the perfect world?

How many users will actually be screwed seriously with SA,
rather than pleased by advantages on other features?

Which actual application is expected to be run on 5.0 with revivesa
in the real world?  Is it really expected to work without any benchmark?
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Izumi Tsutsui