Re: HEADS UP! Upcoming work in HEAD and other events!

[Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

:On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 11:12:09AM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
:>     PREVIEW TAG SLIPPED:
:
:Will DragonFly_Stable stay in sync with DragonFly_Preview, or is it
:going to be removed sometime later?

    It will be removed sometime later.  At the moment it *is* in sync.


:>     MAJOR WORK ON HEAD:
:
:> 	Joerg is going to start bringing in the citrus framework and working
:> 	on libc revision bump issues.  LIBC MAY BREAK!  LIBC MAY BREAK SEVERAL
:> 	TIMES OVER THE NEXT FEW WEEKS, IN FACT!  There could also be 
:> 	buildworld/installworld issues and other things.
:
:I noticed that you need to rebuild perl port(if you have that) after
:the citrus import, otherwise it complains failing to set the locale.
    
    It's likely that just about everything would need to be rebuilt,
    including ports.   Multiple times.   Everyone should be aware that
    the work on HEAD is creating a moving target for libc and system
    calls.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>