On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
> What Motoyuki-san is complaining about is that applications that
> depend on a.out libraries will suffer. Alas, I don't think that's
> the case, since all these libraries are (or ought to be, anyway) in
> compat.
>
> > Looking at copious examples from real life, forcing 3rd party developers
> > to upgrade is a good way to lose 3rd party developers. It just *sounds*
> > like a good way to go. As long as this is a change for building world,
> > and not making changes to the kern/imgact things (so we keep on executing
> > aout binaries) then this is probably the best way to go.
>
> OTOH, going the other way around is the reason why we (users) had to
> deal with things like 1 Mb RAM and 64 Kb segments in the age of
> 486s, one generation after the introduction of the 80386. As a free
> operating system supported by volunteer effort, we are interested in
> driving the hardware to it's limits instead of being limited by the
> ways we once did things.
Absolutely, but (here's the caveat) if it *doesn't* hold up any new
development, and there's a significant base of users actually deriving
benefit from it, then I wouldn't agree. I'm kinda binary about that test,
because I fully agree that, if it holds up technology in a project like
ours, it's out the door!
Stopping the new aout world builds doesn't injure users of aout software,
it only *really* strongly discourages new development in aout. I think it
just needed to be emphasized that the aout imgact stuff isn't being
tossed, so aout executables will still work (those that aren't otherwise
incompatible).
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