Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 13:29:06 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com> Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-user@freefall.freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/gcc/config/i386 freebsd-elf.h freebsd.h Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970217125906.28806A-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <19970216220439.PC60948@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Sun, 16 Feb 1997, David O'Brien wrote: > > It's too late for this. BSD4.4 has been out for years without it. To > > begin with, using it would stop ports from running under old versions of > > FreeBSD except when using it is bogus. > > True, but ports track -current. True, but the installed base -current is probably a lot smaller than various stable versions. It is a shame that many ports arrogantly disregard the substantial installed base of "pre-current" when supporting them is often a trivial #ifdef patch. I was annoyed to find that the apache port doesn't even compile on something as recent as 2.2-BETA! Apache is certainly a port of great interest to the "legacy" installed base. There are ports that simply won't fly on old versions; for example stuff that requires a reasonably modern c++ compiler, but many simply don't have a good excuse for being -current only. -john
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