Re: Removing AOUT support post-5.0?

[Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios%cs.uni-bonn.de@localhost>]

On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 02:10:09AM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 01:43:24AM +0000, David Holland wrote:
>  > > Now that NetBSD is fully ELF and unlikely to switch to new executable 
>  > > format,
>  > 
>  > I don't think the latter is a good assumption.
>  > 
>  > > should we limit hooks for building non-ELF?
>  > 
>  > What would it buy us? Traditionally we retain compatibility all the
>  > way back to NetBSD 0.9...
> 
> Er, building. Right. Never mind, nothing to see here. I can read,
> really :-)
> 
> I guess the theoretical benefits of being able to switch again easily
> are nearly negligible...

I need to build a.out binaries to boot some of my machines. To what 
extend do you want to remove that capability?

        -is