In article <Pine.SOL.3.96.991112154511.13225K-100000@marcy.nas.nasa.gov>,
Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov> wrote:
>On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Christos Zoulas wrote:
>
>> On Nov 12,  2:44pm, wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov (Bill Studenmund) wrote:
>> -- Subject: re: emul/aout, compat/aout [was: Re: Upcoming releases]
>> 
>> I prefer the idea of a separate subtree, because it is easier to clean-up.
>> But it does not really matter.
>
>What's the concensus? Is there one? Prior art?

I don't know. I was thinking about separate trees to make it easier
for people who don't have enough disk space, and also to provide a
good set of libraries. [base + x] I don't care either way though.

>> I meant having two builds for a.out
>
>You mean an aout-still-native and an aout-after-elf versions? Hmmm.
>
>At least a given architecture would only support one at a time..

Right. I suppose that can be accomplished with ifdefs, or just enable the
aout search for everyone.

>One of the other reasons for stiring things up now is so that we can think
>about how upgrades will work with the next version, so we can do things
>like packages (closer to) right.

Sounds fine!

Regards,

christos