Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:39:02 -0400 From: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@acm.org> Cc: Stanislav Sedov <stas@freebsd.org>, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [UPDATE] Re: Update on ports on 10.0 Message-ID: <CAF6rxgmWF0fYF_KQAfjw0VQHX4uadhtFjdor-uTo0ZxK=SGnUA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20111018223146.GA93539@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <20111011063602.GO68552@droso.net> <20111017153551.23281532@tetcu.info> <20111017135130.d9caa4f1.stas@FreeBSD.org> <20111018223146.GA93539@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 6:31 PM, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@acm.org> wrote: > Once hackish work-arounds get committed, it is extremely difficult to > root them out. =C2=A0The last time the project included a temporary hack = to > assist with a similar problem (the aout to ELF migration in FreeBSD > 3), it took more than a decade to get the hack out of base and after > 13 years, there are still 71 ports (by my count) with local work-arounds. > Based on the objformat mess, whatever is done will hang around in > the tree for at least a decade so we are far better off spending > some time now to come up with the best solution, rather than quickly > committing a work-around that we spend the next decade regretting. This hack still has remnants in the tree: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3Dconf/155737 --=20 Eitan Adler
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