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From: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc make.conf
In-Reply-To: <19990502142408.C23950@bitbox.follo.net> from Eivind Eklund at "May 2, 1999  2:24: 8 pm"
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Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 07:28:23 +1000 (EST)
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Eivind Eklund wrote:
> No, we should not.  We do NOT want to drive the developers and testers
> of perl away from FreeBSD.
> 
> Besides, the perl build is broken (try typing plain 'make' in
> /usr/src), and markm won't/wouldn't accept patches that fix it without
> them having been tested on upgrade from 2.2, 3.0-aout and 3.0-elf,
> which I've not had the time to do.

For 4.x-current, I don't think we should support source upgrades from
old aout releases. There are too many combinations to test and I doubt
that anyone has enough hardware and enough spare time to repeatedly
work on this stuff.

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