Julian,

On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 01:24:46PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:

Not to pick on you specifically, but have people forgotten how to read?

In my original message I explicitly said:

I realise it's quite a fundamental change to the startup system, but if it made it in to 4.7 as an alternative (so the default remains the same) . . .

In other words, all these people with mission critical systems running stable see zero change. It would only be those of who did the equivalent of

rcng_enable="YES"

(or whatever the variable is) that would get the new functionality. Giving us the chance to try it out, and test it in production environments, without needing to learn another way of doing things as part of the 'cut over to 5.x' process.

Hmm. When is the existing /etc/rc* system going to be officially deprecated? Has anyone thought about that? At the moment it sounds like 5.x is going to ship with the new system, and without the old one. Shouldn't we be doing something like?

4.7 -- Announce the new system, with the old system as default 5.0 -- Use the new system as default, keep the old system 6.0 -- Remove the old system

I'm sure we can bike shed the version numbers at which these events happen.

N