On 10/28/13 07:42, Gleb Smirnoff wrote: > Hello! > > [Cc to stable@, for wider audience] > > The plan is two axe two old networking protocols from FreeBSD head/, > meaning that FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE, available in couple of years would > be shipped without them. > > 1) AppleTalk > > Last time claimed to be supported by vendor in 2007[1]. In practice > had very little use since 90th. > Discontinued by major routing equipment vendors since 2009[2].
I actually still use this. > Current status of these protocols in FreeBSD is "compilable". For the > next couple of years, we plan a lot of changes in networking stack, > many of which will require changing the protocols, as well. Keeping > them in compilable state would require additional manpower, but it > is very probable, that after all the changes they will be utterly > broken, albeit compilable. Given that Appletalk currently is in a much state than "compilable", how serious are these changes? > P.S. I account any objector as taker of maintainership :) > If they are minor, I volunteer for Appletalk. Otherwise, axe away... -Nathan _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
