Re: Mac OS X patches (Was: Re: Getting things moving again)

2017-11-04 Thread Hal Murray via devel
devel@ntpsec.org said: > I thought that was still under some discussion when we shipped. Remind me > what the patch was? I got the impression that you pretty much vetoed it and/or weren't interested in more discussion. I could easily have misread whatever you said. I think we should dump long

Re: Mac OS X patches (Was: Re: Getting things moving again)

2017-11-04 Thread Eric S. Raymond via devel
Hal Murray : > > > Remember, without this patches we still have support for the *current* Mac > > OS X, just not far back into older ones. I think that is a sufficient > > gesture for our purposes. > > > Opinions of other solicited. > > We decided not to put in a trivial patch that would make

Re: Mac OS X patches (Was: Re: Getting things moving again)

2017-11-04 Thread Hal Murray via devel
> Remember, without this patches we still have support for the *current* Mac > OS X, just not far back into older ones. I think that is a sufficient > gesture for our purposes. > Opinions of other solicited. We decided not to put in a trivial patch that would make things work for older NetBSD

Mac OS X patches (Was: Re: Getting things moving again)

2017-11-04 Thread Eric S. Raymond via devel
Mark Atwood : > I'm inclined to say yes to the MacOS patches, but I want to hear the > discussion, and read the patches myself. I'm inclined to say no, though it's not a hill I'd die on. (1) I want to stand strong about platform standandards conformance lest we get nibbled to death by ducks, and