Re: [HACKERS] A small problem with the new inet and cidr types

On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:

> Perhaps but let me point out a few things.
> 
>   - The code wasn't that late.  Other things were holding up release
>     and the inet/cidr stuff was in by the drop dead date we were given
>     at the time.
No disagreement on that from here...

>   - Because of a few late night coding sessions we now have a really
>     cool feature and we beat the market.  That's something we can use in
>     our announcement.  Putting this feature in, even if we pushed the
>     deadline a little, didn't weaken the product, it strengthened it.
No disagreement here either...to a certain extent.  What we shoudl
have done was followed our original release schedualed and looked at
getting the INET/CIDR stuff into v6.5 instead.  But, hindsight is 20/20
and its in now...

Marc G. Fournier                                
Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org