On August 29, 2003 09:08 pm, Todd Vierling wrote:
If you want to provide multiple levels of compatibility, provide multiple builds and indicate what their build environments were. Builds for older OS releases simply get less features. This doesn't even require multiple machines; one compiler looking at multiple sets of .h and shared libraries is enough.
Todd, let's just drop this -- it's clear we're not going to convice any of the party here to change their views. You're firm on your high horse, and I'm just glad I'm a Linux not a NetBSD user. With this kind of attitude, I can see a mass migration towards NetBSD on the desktop. Not.