Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:25:07 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> To: Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, Rong-En Fan <rafan@freebsd.org>, cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/news/tin Makefile Message-ID: <20070614182507.GA82181@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <cb5206420706141045y47fdec28p25ad8f2ebed1efcb@mail.gmail.com> References: <200706141710.l5EHAWvp016198@repoman.freebsd.org> <20070614171039.247C616A4E5@hub.freebsd.org> <cb5206420706141014s251d3a8bye4978301d1cfd6f3@mail.gmail.com> <20070614172338.GA45880@nagual.pp.ru> <cb5206420706141045y47fdec28p25ad8f2ebed1efcb@mail.gmail.com>
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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
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