Re: HEADS UP! Major commits in the tree coming soon

From: Kirk Strauser (kirk_at_strauser.com)
Date: 05/29/03

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Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 13:31:54 -0500

    At 2003-05-29T18:04:08Z, Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> writes:

    > Shouldn't we also drop support for the earlier pentium systems as well? I
    > think that we can safely assume that everyone is running a pentium 4 or
    > better.

    Intel? Bah! I use only AMD, so I think that CPUTYPE=k7 is a reasonable
    cutoff.

    >> - Add perl 5.8 *and* python 2.2 to base.

    > I agree - perl makes a perfect replacement for tar.

    I strongly disagree. We already have csh - anything else is just frilly. 

    -- 
Kirk Strauser

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