On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 03:36:10PM -0700, Paul Allen wrote: > Well, I suspect that most people with the resources to do what you ask > have already moved on precisely because the EoL has been published. > i.e., faced with that limited commitment, we had no choice but to > (grudgingly and at the last minute) move on. > > I think the most likely path of success is, as you say, to make the 4.x > userland more like 6.x. > > Without some prior commitment of project resources though, this > is unlikely to fly with anyone. > > e.g., an agreement to EoL of 5.x and do port-cluster builds of > a gcc 3.x variant of the 4.x kernel series. > > I recall that this was done in Dragonfly for a while.
The 4.x support policy was announced some time ago and may be found here: http://www.freebsd.org/portmgr/policies_releng_4.html We are not interested in increasing the level of support beyond this. In particular 4.x package builds will stop on 31 Jan 2007. Kris
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