From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 14 04:29:07 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE25C16A47A; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 04:29:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ade@lovett.com) Received: from mail.lovett.com (foo.lovett.com [67.134.38.158]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE99D13C4BF; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 04:29:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ade@lovett.com) Received: from hellfire.canal.lovett.com ([172.16.32.20]:50927) by mail.lovett.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.66 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1HHBlQ-000KIa-Iv; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:29:04 -0800 In-Reply-To: <45D1F2B8.1010902@metro.cx> References: <45D1F2B8.1010902@metro.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Ade Lovett Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:29:03 -0800 To: Koen Martens X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) Sender: ade@lovett.com Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Palle Girgensohn , Ade Lovett Subject: Re: default postgresql 7.4 -> 8.1, OK? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 04:29:07 -0000 On Feb 13, 2007, at 09:17 , Koen Martens wrote: > I'm all in favour of this. Any specific reason you're not moving to > the 8.2.x branch? 8.2.x isn't really stable enough yet for Joe User to pick it up when they want postgresql support for random-port. I'm definitely in favor of making 8.1.x the default version, and would go a little further, and suggest putting in a suitable deprecation date (say 12 months for 74 and 6 months for 80). 8.0->8.1 is pretty straightforward, whereas there are definitely folks who need to stick with 7.x for a while, hence the difference in expiration dates. -aDe