From owner-cvs-user Mon Feb 17 10:30:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA04151 for cvs-user-outgoing; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 10:30:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (fallout.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA04099; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 10:29:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA29041; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 13:29:06 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 13:29:06 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber To: "David O'Brien" cc: Bruce Evans , 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 In-Reply-To: <19970216220439.PC60948@dragon.nuxi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-user@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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