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From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 09:45:46PM +0400, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
> On 6/14/07, Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru> wrote:
> >On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 09:14:46PM +0400, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
> >>  700000-700033 don't support ncursesw. If you're
> >
> >I think OSVERSION check is used only for released or stable branches.
> >-current development people are supposed to bring their system to the
> >latest, isn't?
> 
> We use OSVERSION for whichever checks we like. You're
> not required to support unreleased versions, but some
> -current users need to keep their desktops behind for
> one reason or another. Doing that check might help
> them. Forget it if you don't have time for this.

+1.  It also not that hard to check out for particular OSVERSION(s) one
should care about:

	http://people.freebsd.org/~fenner/__FreeBSD_version.html

That's what I always try to do.  Plus, it gives all us additional chance
to rethink if we need a bump for particular change or not (sadly,
sometimes there's no exact match, ergo one has to pick some close value
to minimize possible impact on our end-users).

./danfe