Re: 3.4 CDs

[Andrew M Hoerter <amh@pobox.com>]

On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, robert schwartz wrote:

> Yes you are, the release cycle makes a lot of sense due to the dynamic
> nature of the source tree (i.e. big stuff changes a lot every day and
> every 6 months these are checkmarked to a release).  Things get changed
> in OpenBSD to suit a single individual, yes, but that one person isn't
> you :)

I'm not sure how this addresses any argument I've made, so perhaps you've
skipped your medication today?

> I did read it, in it you said:
> "My perception is that changes between releases are generally
> incremental"
>
> Which is maybe the heart of the matter.  Change this assumption to "the
> releases are major overhauls of everything from soup to nutz" and you
> have a different logical conclusion.

You're simply wrong, as even the most casual perusal of CVS logs or
simple comparison of releases will show.  Or maybe my idea of a "major
overhaul" in an operating system is different from yours (going from ipf
to pf; moving to ELF; these are major changes to me).

> Furthermore you stated:
> "Is your one year old OpenBSD system "obsolete" because some manpages
> were rewritten"
>
> Which is a tacit assumption that the only source code changes between
> OpenBSD 3.2 and 3.4 is a few manual pages.

It's an assumption of your own making, because you've deliberately
misquoted me by eliding the rest of that sentence.  As well as the one
after it acknowledging that it was a slight exaggeration for effect.

Please, you must be at least ---><--- this tall to read misc.  Although
lately it seems that rule has been relaxed.