From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Aug 1 10:35:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA01393 for ports-outgoing; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 10:35:46 -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 KAA01336; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 10:35:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news1.gtn.com (8.7.2/8.7.2) with UUCP id SAA19408; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 18:30:21 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from andreas@localhost) by klemm.gtn.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) id SAA07707; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 18:24:49 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19970801182448.26268@klemm.gtn.com> Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 18:24:48 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm To: ports@freebsd.org Cc: current@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports-current/packages-current discontinued References: <199708010601.XAA18505@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 0.79 In-Reply-To: <199708010601.XAA18505@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>; from Satoshi Asami on Thu, Jul 31, 1997 at 11:01:28PM -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-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, Jul 31, 1997 at 11:01:28PM -0700, Satoshi Asami wrote: > We will make sure everything compiles and > works in 2.2-stable, so when the next release comes out, we'll have a > functional set of packgaes. (Also, people following -current are > generally more capable of building stuff themselves. :) But unable to build really working 2.2 packages, because they only have -current :-/ > This is truly a sad day. The irony of this all is that it really > didn't have to happen, and it would have been possible for us to > support both 3.0-current and 2.2-stable if more consideration has been > made before some commits into -current. Well, wouldnīt it make more sense to discuss, to back out the changes that introduces these problems ? Very very sad is, that in my eyes tcl 8.x brings us really _nothing_ from the Operating systems view, but finally it breaks the whole concept, that -current ports can be used in 99% of cases in 2.2 and -current. We want to improve the Operating System -> thatīs FreeBSD, not compete with Linux to pickup the last bits and bytes, that break something. Why was TCL not brought into the ports collection ??? We already have several TCL versions there for backward compatibility ... why not put the newest stuff into there with respect to the problems. that now arise ? Generally we had the policy, to use the ports collection for new stuff, that belongs to FreeBSD. I think itīs time to re-think, what really belongs into the operating system and what not ... Woulnīt it be better to come to a decision, that such things like perl and tcl, _if_ they are needed in the base system, should be of the same version in -current and -stable ?! > For instance, there is no reason why tcl-8.0beta2 had to go > into the tree now, whether the tree is called -current or not. I fully agree, if I read now the big _disadvantages_ > It is dubbed BETA of all things on the master site, and we haven't > even had it in our ports area to test it. Then Iīd vote "back it out!" ;-) > As some people have noted, there is no matching tk version in our > ports tree either. The latest incident just reinforces my belief that > it was a mistake in the first place to include something like tcl in > the base distribution (note that it was also done without consensus > back then), and one we may regret for a long time to come. I think itīs time to "purify" our sources. I think itīs a bad idea, to have only a ports collection based on -STABLE. Ports should at least run with -STABLE and -CURRENT. I only run -current, create ports myself and Iīm unable to build up a -STABLE system to test my ports for 2.2-STABLE systems. And I donīt want to go back to -STABLE, because I have a SMP system and like the bleeding edge more ... Iīd like to say "peope, letīs try to find a way out of this mess" .... Andreas /// -- 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