On Saturday 26 June 2004 19:56, Alex Keahan wrote: > On Saturday 26 Jun 2004 8:24 pm, Tim Robbins wrote: > > The kernel's internal interfaces change; security bugs are discovered. > > Someone has to keep the code up to date, and the people who end up doing > > the work are *not* the people who advocate keeping the code around. > > That's a slippery slope and you don't want to go there. > > Maintenance of old code is the price you have to pay when you write new > code. That includes kernel interfaces and security bugs. I think you should start investigating how to best maintain the existing code outside of the source tree and bring it back as a port instead of trying to provoke a bikeshed. It's not like like the code is going to be fed into a digital shredder - in some ways, removing it from the src realm actually makes it _more_ open for interested parties to contribute to. -- ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | lofi_at_freebsd.org (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org
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