[illumos-Developer] ON is bloated and a bunch of stuff that doesn't need to be there should be ripped out (was Re: Heads up: perl 5.8.4 removal)
Garrett D'Amore
garrett at damore.org
Fri Nov 12 10:21:44 PST 2010
On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 09:59 -0800, Bryan Cantrill wrote:
> For whatever it's worth, ripping out SunOS 4.x compatibility was
> always one of Tim Marsland's dreams. He always demurred, and given
> how badly he wanted to do it, it was probably for good reason. Tim is
> now a kernel engineer at Apple; don't know if he's on this list
> (Tim?), but it might be a good idea to reach out for some history
> here...
>
> - Bryan
Good advice, thanks!
- Garrett
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