Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 17:02:16 -0400 From: Bill Fumerola <billf@chimesnet.com> To: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami <asami@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>, Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Andreas Klemm <andreas@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/databases/p5-DBD-Pg Makefile ports/databases/p5-Pg Makefile ports/databases/pgaccess Makefile ports/databases/py-PyGreSQL Makefile Message-ID: <20000828170216.G33771@jade.chc-chimes.com> In-Reply-To: <vqcg0np40cp.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>; from asami@FreeBSD.org on Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 01:06:14PM -0700 References: <20000826111839.A268@bonsai.hiwaay.net> <200008270118.VAA70257@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20000826212034.R57333@jade.chc-chimes.com> <200008260915.CAA87620@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000826111839.A268@bonsai.hiwaay.net> <200008270118.VAA70257@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20000827111747.A1589@titan.klemm.gtn.com> <20000827115031.T57333@jade.chc-chimes.com> <20000827110549.D268@bonsai.hiwaay.net> <vqcg0np40cp.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
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On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 01:06:14PM -0700, Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami wrote:
> Unfortunately, we have to do it the (current) way because of the way
> CVS works. If we branch to postgres/postgres7, then the version
> history will accumulate in postgres7, and merging it back to postgres
> will make us lose all of that. (Unless someone wants to go through
> the CVS logs and merge all revisions to postgres.)
>
> That is why we generally leave the "<port>N" version after the port is
> officially upgraded to version N.
>
> On the other hand, when we have an "experimental" (or "development" or
> whatever) version where we don't care much about the history of that
> part, we branch it off as "<port>-devel" with the intention of just
> merging back at the point the new version becomes stable.
The history for pgsql7 will always be there, people just have to go looking.
In the mean time we've touched 20 dependencies and now have a port that
would have never been there in the first place. If the intent was to kill old
version support and bring the version7 into mainstream, then we should have
had postgresql-current/devel/whatever. If the intent was to have an entirely
different product (see XFree86, netscape), then postgresql7 is appropriatly
named.
If we had imported postgresql7 as it stands today, would we have imported it
as postgresql7? No. Where is the logical place to look for the one and only copy
of postgresql? ports/databases/postgresql.
--
Bill Fumerola - Network Architect, BOFH / Chimes, Inc.
billf@chimesnet.com / billf@FreeBSD.org
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