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On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 05:22:53PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
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| NetBSD's current compatibility policy is important, we need to keep it,
| even strengthen it wherever possible (mostly by gradually redesigning those
| interfaces that turn out to cause problems to make them more stable).
| Weakening it would be a disaster.
I completely agree with Robert's entire post; especially this last point.
Our ABI compatibility offering, especially with newer kernels and
older userland [*] has been one of our stronger features for years,
in contrast to the problems that are experienced on other (open source)
systems that don't care about ABI compatibility.
cheers,
Luke.
[*] modulo annoying exceptions such as ipfilter.
darrenr@, please fix this correctly.
mrg@ & I (and others) have been on your case about
this for at least a decade.
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