From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Thu Jun 22 22:16:48 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8C53D956A6 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2017 22:16:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scratch65535@att.net) Received: from mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (mailman.ysv.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::50:5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B86FC676B9 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2017 22:16:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scratch65535@att.net) Received: by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) id B44F8D956A5; Thu, 22 Jun 2017 22:16:48 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2240D956A4 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2017 22:16:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scratch65535@att.net) Received: from nm2-vm6.access.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com (nm2-vm6.access.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com [216.109.114.93]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5FE5F676B8 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2017 22:16:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scratch65535@att.net) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=att.net; s=s1024; t=1498169699; bh=6TmVJkn0bRjXRbqs4pMarGBnHdmJUaL7z/S1sbMyvY4=; h=From:To:Subject:Date:References:In-Reply-To:From:Subject; b=mL6zRG5XD/GZK8/IaDyTOBlB/gfcFDWViTd7eCKlPvo6TB8k+mLzM0mH8JqJBccDkb0y0omeBUjPUlmz5ZEneH3in+wh0KlUhFoc6zGWBU9zTcM7ioC4nDuCGElLWS8kL9Yshu0UTrdQa1UueSjdz1OUzQHY9ksOQwXCw59klO8= Received: from [66.196.81.161] by nm2.access.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 22 Jun 2017 22:14:59 -0000 Received: from [98.139.244.51] by tm7.access.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 22 Jun 2017 22:14:59 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp113.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 22 Jun 2017 22:14:59 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 485073.12776.bm@smtp113.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: 3CEfy94VM1lMBUxfpihzEE.5yQ8S2r960NKHw._sQleDIXN 6ec6xndS9DibyolqYeLsnXGxYeHHKWvTLj3DYTEwy54JNrcRz4tJnjwkNbPq XefyeFRnOrGp6FNWM1PQsXrdZHOL1cnPNvrPHJoR6D3XncBTx3t4SHshfvh9 m2Si7__fnUQn3HocZZGj20X2PYQKl6nKJKCYOD55OJt8tb66WUai_dpikX6p tP458giW9RQiiRUH2sdOMe43QjXTK.hkzpV45pQ90j2aICsg6__E.YIQyeTe jFzEyQISbQa2PSKzTd0z_1nn_CROw.860x0twyWoTZMYejC92QtCW8u8Q36o .nIxjRqCZZGcgFAfDouksgn03.s3wKClh2YbVp.kbiNkmyvTXy0LfTgVGgQP gWwFrRP7ZI5VVGbtDwm.Uz.oTfggSK.TLMj._U8EYhrHZyOo8_fJE7MTu6pZ PSBsJx4_pRHJtimXOyHciNBEy3BO.DuADEATMonPDg87Vy4PVva9eT6lZzWF l3ou7MCzV0w.jy8HZwwPeWxAA478EBVvx6WfgRKX_HT9QLYpMejx04VYYD6_ vPJIYpIXgavMJsssULAU2 X-Yahoo-SMTP: pPvqnOaswBBbYZLVYFzvU7GaowLcbNioPp.aF8KvOjZk From: To: freebsd-ports Subject: Re: [RFC] Why FreeBSD ports should have branches by OS version Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 18:15:12 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20170622121856.haikphjpvr6ofxn3@ivaldir.net> <20170622141644.yadxdubynuhzygcy@ivaldir.net> <4jrnkcpurfmojfdnglqg5f97sohcuv56sv@4ax.com> <20170622211126.GA6878@lonesome.com> In-Reply-To: <20170622211126.GA6878@lonesome.com> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 4.2/32.1118 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 22:16:48 -0000 [Default] On Thu, 22 Jun 2017 16:11:26 -0500, Mark Linimon wrote: >On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 12:32:45PM -0400, scratch65535@att.net wrote: >> My problem is that my industry experience tells me that reducing >> the frequency of port releases is practically *guaranteed* to be >> a Really Good Thing for everyone. > >I remember before we had the quarterly releases, and people on the >mailing lists complained constantly about the ports bits only being >available once per release, or rolling with -head. Mark, I can only suppose that those complainers are dilettantes of some sort who believe that having The Latest-And-Greatest Bits is a social-status enhancer. **Nobody** with real work to do ever willingly fools away time "fixing" what isn't broken. That's why there are still millions of XP boxes in daily use despite everything M$ has been able to do to force people to give them up. 's mise le meas