Re: FreeBSD 5.0 RC3 now available

2003-01-14 Thread Keith Jones
Craig Reyenga wrote: One thing I noticed in previous releases is that the choice of packages is a little odd. Many small packages and ones that are not popular seem to make it on the first CD, while bigger and/or more popular ones are stuck being fetched+built manually after. This can be a pain

Re: [PATCH] Re: fpsetmask on sparc64

2003-01-14 Thread Keith Jones
Dan Nelson wrote: I think 8 years of warnings is more than enough :) I agree with you that it ought to be. Personally I think people that still use "#include " should be forced to write out "#include " 1000 times, then eat the paper. However, it is an imperfect universe. ;) Out of the ~710

Re: FreeBSD 5.0 RC3 now available

2003-01-14 Thread Keith Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ..com>, "local.freebsd.current" writes: >That sounds like "it's time to ship so we're going to ship". That's it. >I'm not trying to get up anyone's nose here, but aren't there >objective release criteria? yes: "No more delays" :-) I th

Re: [PATCH] Re: fpsetmask on sparc64

2003-01-14 Thread Keith Jones
Terry Lambert wrote: If a legacy application stops working because a system changes, it's the fault of the system doing the changing, not the fault of the people back in 1984 who didn't know ANSI was going to bung-up the C language until their application no longer worked. There has to be some a