christos@ wrote: > On Mar 14, 11:36pm, tsut...@ceres.dti.ne.jp (Izumi Tsutsui) wrote: > -- Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/distrib/common/bootimage > > | Silent possible installation failure we saw in 6.0 as mentioned in PRs > | was bad enough for users. > | > | What is "good" on the other hand? Design? Secure during installation? > > I think consistency and old code elimination counts... I think we can > test sun2 and sun3 with TME.
Well, "old code eliminations" gives nothing to users. I would rather like to see a proper migration plan how to eliminate it without regressions, especially on install. (If installation fails we won't get possible new users) In pre-6.0 days compat pty nodes were removed from MAKEDEV all target without annoucement, then a certain number of Tier-II users failed to install on their favorite machines with unclear "openpty() failed" messages during installation. One possible kludge is adding "file-system PTYFS" into conf/std, but I don't think we can make consensus with it. --- Izumi Tsutsui