Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 12:26:58 -0400 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: freebsd general questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Compatibility Between Releases Policy Message-ID: <17701.12882.642660.607789@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <4525260C.6080100@highperformance.net> References: <45249716.2050401@highperformance.net> <4524B1DF.20206@locolomo.org> <4525260C.6080100@highperformance.net>
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Jason C. Wells writes: > Ports astonish me more often than FreeBSD to be sure. If one > uses a port that was built on a 6.0 system, can one trust that no > bit rot will occur by the time 6.9 rolls around. If you mean "Is it guaranteed a binary built under x.0 will run, even with remapped libraries, under x.9?" then the answer is "Hell, no." If you mean "Will a port that builds sucessfully under both x.0 and x.9 be limited only by changes in the port and not in the OS?" then the answer (as I understand it) is "Probably." Robert Huff
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