On Wednesday, 8 December 1999 at 20:23:24 +0100, Brad Knowles wrote:
> At 10:56 AM -0800 1999/12/8, Mike Smith wrote:
>
>> The right attitude to be taking now is "here is where the ata drivers
>> still fall down" or "here are patches to them to replace this
>> functionality". Think about the longer-term goals here folks.
>
> I understand where Julian is coming from. In fact, my initial
> reaction was the same. However, I have reluctantly been converted to
> be in agreement with Mike and Søren (among others).
>
> This is -CURRENT. It pains me to say it, but anyone trying to
> run anything "useful" on -CURRENT gets what they deserve. This is
> the only place where we can make clean breaks with the past, and as
> painful as that can be, we simply have to do that occasionally.
Next month it'll be -RELEASE. This isn't the time to remove such
significant functionality. If it weren't for that, I'd agree with
you.
Greg
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