In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Vincent Jardin writes: >Why does it need to be removed ? According to me, it would be the same mistake >as the removal of netiso and netccitt. I did not know FreeBSD at this time, >but nowadays, in order to get an OS that supports many stacks, we have to use >NetBSD. > >BSD4.4 was designed in order to support many stacks, FreeBSD 6, 7 ou 9 will >support only IPv4 and IPv6, won't they ?
We will import and retain any protocol stack which has enough interested users and committers to keep it alive. netiso and netccitt both fell for both of those criteria: neither users nor committers. netns fails both criteria too. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
