From owner-freebsd-current Sun Aug 3 12:46:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA12100 for current-outgoing; Sun, 3 Aug 1997 12:46:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from news1.gtn.com (news1.gtn.com [194.77.0.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA12086 for ; Sun, 3 Aug 1997 12:46:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news1.gtn.com (8.7.2/8.7.2) with UUCP id VAA23777; Sun, 3 Aug 1997 21:30:33 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from andreas@localhost) by klemm.gtn.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) id VAA03070; Sun, 3 Aug 1997 21:26:36 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19970803212635.43034@klemm.gtn.com> Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 21:26:35 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm To: Tom Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Make this a relese coordinator decision (was Re: ports-current/packages-current discontinued) References: <19970803122321.15396@klemm.gtn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 0.79 In-Reply-To: ; from Tom on Sun, Aug 03, 1997 at 11:37:46AM -0700 X-Disclaimer: A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT SMP Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, Aug 03, 1997 at 11:37:46AM -0700, Tom wrote: > > On Sun, 3 Aug 1997, Andreas Klemm wrote: > > ... > > So he wanted only to support -stable in the future. But I think > > this is a step behind. > > Ports have to be buildable on -current and -stable, because : > > a) -current is the next upcoming -stable release > > Really? Probably not. I expect that there will be a 2.2.5 > or something out soon. Yes ... and after that ? I think 3.0 will have to come out as well with SMP support and such. And I donīt believe, that there will be a 2.2.5 or 2.2.whatever with merged SMP support. As it was in the past, -current will become the next major release with many new improved features. And you certainly want to have a working ports collection for that version as well, or ?! > Key point here. Basically no one can stop developers from making > current incompatible with stable. We have the ports collection for such add on software, so lets use it ! > Basically, if current developers agree not to break > compatibility, the problem goes away. yes. and nobody would loose anything, because you can of course install tcl 8.x from the ports collection. -- Andreas Klemm | klemm.gtn.com - powered by Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/SMP.html http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/benches.html