Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 13:26:16 +1000 From: Kubilay Kocak <koobs@FreeBSD.org> To: marino@freebsd.org, Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org>, Matthias Andree <mandree@FreeBSD.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r389117 - head/databases/db48 Message-ID: <5578FFD8.40206@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <5578927C.9070909@marino.st> References: <201506101808.t5AI8akA072276@svn.freebsd.org> <55788222.2090909@marino.st> <6E26F13BC369E591AB7ED533@atuin.in.mat.cc> <5578927C.9070909@marino.st>
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On 11/06/2015 5:39 AM, John Marino wrote: > On 6/10/2015 15:09, Mathieu Arnold wrote: >> +--On 10 juin 2015 20:29:54 +0200 John Marino <freebsd.contact@marino.st> >> | As a ramification, can you set DEPRECATED and EXPIRATION_DATE=2015-07-31 >> | for all the bitcoin-related ports that refuse to transition off of db48? >> | This port expiration has been extended several times, so why would >> | these bitcoin ports feel the need to change? The maintainers know it >> | will just get extended again. >> >> Bitcoin is engaged into converting from db48, yes, it'll take them years >> (as in, many, I was about to write "a decade") to be confortable enough to >> remove db48 support, so, can we drop this discussion now, or are we going >> to revisit it every couple of months for the upcoming years ? >> > > Yes, if db48 remove is extended every 2 months then I think it will > probably get revisited every time it happens. > > There's really two logical choices: > > 1) remove the deprecation of db48 and commit to keeping it indefinitely > 2) remove the bitcoin ports in two months. > > something like this taking "years" is pretty scary. It shouldn't be > that hard. I'll defer to your knowledge and accept that it is. > > John > Ignoring whether we like it or not, and without comparing it to alternatives, there's a third option: Allow *coin ports to use the vendored/bundled db48 library, not the port versions. ./koobs
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