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Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 17:55:44 +0200
From: Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org>
To: Ryan Steinmetz <zi@FreeBSD.org>, Barrie Archer <enquiry@myarcher.net>
Subject: Re: p5-Git-Repository
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+--On 7 juillet 2014 09:44:09 -0400 Ryan Steinmetz <zi@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
| We should either add workarounds for older systems or a warning
| that will be printed if a user is running a FreeBSD release that lacks
| required functionality for the ports tree to function.

Well, the ports tree is only guaranteed to work with supported FreeBSD
releases. So, if you're not running a supported release, you're on your own.

We can't add bits and pieces of version checks around everything that won't
work with older releases.

-- 
Mathieu Arnold