site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com On Sep 17, 2004, at 20:49, Damien Bobillot wrote: _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... Originally, we had intended to leave the BIND-8 library in libSystem and remove the BIND-8 headers (resolv.h and nameser.h) but we ended up keeping the old headers and adding the BIND_8_COMPAT switch so that developers that really, really, had no other choice except to keep building with the BIND-8 version could do so. If at all possible, please avoid using BIND-8. It will eventually go away. It's important to keep the BIND 8 version, not for developers (they can rewritte their code) but for administrators who want to compile and use applications not updated to BIND 9 (administrators are often not able to rewritte code). but is it really the OS-vendor's responsibility to drag along old stuff, because certain applications are not maintained and updated to work in recent enviroments? (not that I'm calling here for removing bind 8 compat, this is more of a general thing) felix -- gpg-fingerprint: 076E 1E87 3E05 1C7F B1A0 8A48 0D31 9BD3 D9AC 74D0 http://fkr.hazardous.org | http://opendarwin.org/~fkr/ | FKR-RIPE This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com