From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG  Wed Sep  3 14:08:49 2014
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115])
 (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits))
 (No client certificate requested)
 by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1EEE7356
 for <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>; Wed,  3 Sep 2014 14:08:49 +0000 (UTC)
Received: from hades.sorbs.net (hades.sorbs.net [67.231.146.201])
 by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFD991DAF
 for <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>; Wed,  3 Sep 2014 14:08:48 +0000 (UTC)
MIME-version: 1.0
Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII
Received: from isux.com (firewall.isux.com [213.165.190.213])
 by hades.sorbs.net
 (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7.0.5.29.0 64bit (built Jul 9 2013))
 with ESMTPSA id <0NBB0041JWT1EV00@hades.sorbs.net> for
 freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Wed, 03 Sep 2014 07:12:40 -0700 (PDT)
Message-id: <540720ED.2010900@sorbs.net>
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 16:08:45 +0200
From: Michelle Sullivan <michelle@sorbs.net>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.24)
 Gecko/20100301 SeaMonkey/1.1.19
To: Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de>
Subject: Re: [HEADSUP] pkg(8) is now the only package management tool
References: <20140901195520.GB77917@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net>
 <54050D07.4010404@sorbs.net>
 <CAOFF+Z1MOr9-rYbwHYWqBKjMvRPwUnew4jThEoJ_WkoTmwyNsQ@mail.gmail.com>
 <540522A3.9050506@sorbs.net> <54052891.5000104@my.hennepintech.edu>
 <54052DFA.4030808@freebsd.org> <54053372.6020009@my.hennepintech.edu>
 <5405890F.8080804@freebsd.org>
 <CAF-3MvNBWSEWF-HarwF0xcXQgo=7-dO+tvLMO1maELPY0RVhQQ@mail.gmail.com>
 <20140902125256.Horde.uv31ztwymThxUZ-OYPQoBw1@webmail.df.eu>
 <5405AE54.60809@sorbs.net> <1D2B4A91-E76C-43A0-BE75-D926357EF1AF@gmail.com>
 <5405E4F5.4090902@sorbs.net> <5406BD65.705@digsys.bg>
 <5406ED34.7090301@sorbs.net> <5406F00C.6090504@digsys.bg>
 <C4EC1A3A-6EB1-4EE1-ACEA-12C8E203991C@cs.huji.ac.il>
 <358B9E99-5E02-47BA-9E30-045986150966@gromit.dlib.vt.edu>
 <20140903155530.464a7649@suse3.ewadmin.local>
In-reply-to: <20140903155530.464a7649@suse3.ewadmin.local>
Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Daniel Kalchev <daniel@digsys.bg>
X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1
Precedence: list
List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code <freebsd-stable.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/options/freebsd-stable>,
 <mailto:freebsd-stable-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-stable-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable>,
 <mailto:freebsd-stable-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 14:08:49 -0000

Rainer Duffner wrote:
>
> Maybe Solaris or RedHat would be better platforms for those negatively
> affected by this - they have very stable APIs that are supported for a
> very long time. But porting non-mainstream 3rd-party software to these
> OSs might be challenging, too, after a couple of years. 3rd-party
> software moves on, too.
>
>
>
>   

Well all my applications are written in perl or ansi c (using posix
calls) so they compile and run on most linux, solaris and freebsd
versions without much changes (the usual issue is the libraries needed
for resolver routines)

Michelle

-- 
Michelle Sullivan
http://www.mhix.org/