On 10/03/11 15:54, Garrett Cooper wrote:
On Oct 3, 2011, at 1:52 PM, Doug Barton wrote:
On 10/03/2011 08:13, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
Author: nwhitehorn
Date: Mon Oct 3 15:13:09 2011
New Revision: 225937
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/225937
Log:
Farewall, sysinstall! You served us well for many years, but 10.0 is one
digit beyond your time.
sysinstall had (at least) 2 primary purposes, installation, and
post-install system configuration. The new installer is a good step
towards the first goal, but we currently have nothing to fulfill the
second role. For that reason I think this step is premature.
One could also make the case that this is exactly the kind of disruptive
change that the release engineer asked us not to do until the release is
done, but I'll leave that to them to deal with. :)
FWIW, I thought timeline between deprecation and deletion was at least 2
releases too..
-Garrett
I had thought the intention was to let it remain in 9.0 indefinitely and
then to remove it from 10 (which gives sysinstall a more than 20-year
run). I brought this up early last week on the freebsd-sysinstall list,
to no objections and some encouragement. It can be reverted, of course,
if people would prefer that.
-Nathan
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