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From: John Dyson <dysonj@delphi.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: 4.4-lite?
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 94 12:08:17 -0500
Organization: Delphi (info@delphi.com email, 800-695-4005 voice)
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Paul A Vixie <vixie@vix.com> writes:
 
>But either way it's the same final step to making sure the 4.4-Lite based
>system is "right".  So why argue that either "middle set of steps" is better?
>
>I guess we argue because it lets us avoid doing any work without feeling like
>we've completely wasted our time.  It's an amazing form of self deception, and
>here I am.
 
Just trying to make sure that we have firm ground to stand on if the USL
sharks appear again.  I was actually for taking the approach of moving
4.4Lite into FreeBSD, but we decided to take the opposite approach.  This
also allowed us to easily pick&choose the FreeBSD enhancements to merge in.
(We have left out the low-level clustering for now, but most everything
else has been moved.)  I guess that FreeBSD just did what makes it feel
good (with a little more complexity for the merge), and NetBSD just did
what makes it feel good...
 
John
dyson@implode.root.com