From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Jan 20 13:58:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from puck.firepipe.net (mcut-b-167.resnet.purdue.edu [128.211.209.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21C6F37B400 for ; Sat, 20 Jan 2001 13:58:38 -0800 (PST) Received: by puck.firepipe.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E672A1A49; Sat, 20 Jan 2001 16:58:36 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 16:58:36 -0500 From: Will Andrews To: Neil Blakey-Milner Cc: Gregory Sutter , ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [john@sixgirls.org: [dn-articles] FreeBSD problems: newsworthy?] Message-ID: <20010120165836.G1262@puck.firepipe.net> Reply-To: Will Andrews Mail-Followup-To: Will Andrews , Neil Blakey-Milner , Gregory Sutter , ports@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010120133038.C7492@klapaucius.zer0.org> <20010120234228.A41947@rapier.smartspace.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="rWhLK7VZz0iBluhq" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010120234228.A41947@rapier.smartspace.co.za>; from nbm@mithrandr.moria.org on Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 11:42:28PM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --rWhLK7VZz0iBluhq Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 11:42:28PM +0200, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > I've expressed before, and will express again, my incredible dislike of > this port.mkversion "you have to upgrade or you can't use ports" thing > from a user level. Especially since we break it, and don't retain > support even for the last release. I previously offered to maintain > support for the old version of the stuff, provide patches, and so forth, > but Satoshi said he didn't want them in or something. >=20 > I don't believe it's incredibly hard to provide this compatibility for > at least the latest release, or maybe even a few releases. It will also > irritate users less - I get complaints about it from my converts a lot. Yes. I think the system needs to be rewritten a little. The documentation of it on /ports could be better too. Perhaps an RFC is needed on ports@ with Satoshi on the line. --=20 wca --rWhLK7VZz0iBluhq Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6agoMF47idPgWcsURAhd7AJ9DqGC2U5Tu6oTl6V0LyPodLh2axwCfUn6A T/fXmumiqgwa9THdJgR8eos= =K7Ep -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --rWhLK7VZz0iBluhq-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message