On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Edward B. DREGER wrote:
Perhaps work on 7 should have been delayed until 5 and 6 were able to woo
people away from 4 -- or at least not leave valid reasons for people wanting
to stay behind. (Note that I'm more sympathetic than my tone might
indicate; I've also gotten into some jams from long release cycles, and know
what it's like.)
I think this misconstrues the trade-off. That's like saying "Work on 5.x
instead of 6.x". 6.x is 5.x, just significantly refined and improved. 7.x is
6.x, just significantly refined and improved. There are some improvements
that are too agressive to MFC, and those are what will constitute the
difference between 6.x and 7.0. For example, there are a set of socket layer
stabilization/cleanup improvements that I've not yet MFC'd, and may not do so
(they've been in the tree for 6-7 months and appear to be good, but need a lot
of shake-out). But many of the changes going into 7.x sit there for a period
of a few months to stabilize, and then go into 6.x. Right now this MFC
pipeline is working quite well, but it's worth keeping in mind that if we
MFC'd all the improvements from 6.x to 5.x, it would simply be 6.x, and it
would be easier if people switched to 6.x than have us merge all the changes.
:-)
Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge
What's done is done, though. Rather than spend undue effort on 4 and 5,
improving 6 and 7 is the best way to improve the newer branches... which
might well remove objections to jumping from 4. i.e., I like 4.x just as
much as anyone else, but there's a bigger picture to consider.
*shrug*
As others have pointed out, if things really are "that bad", third-party
support makes sense. And nothing is stopping anyone from running
NetBSD, DragonFly, or OpenBSD. Or Solaris. Or Linux. Or...
[ end bikeshed contribution ]
Eddy
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