Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 14:05:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> Cc: Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com>, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <jruigrok@via-net-works.nl>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/net/ucd-snmp Makefile ports/net/ucd-snmp/patches patch-al patch-am patch-an Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005181404050.68457-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200005182100.OAA18536@bubba.whistle.com>
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On Thu, 18 May 2000, Archie Cobbs wrote:
> > This is -current, people are sort of expected to update it semi-regularly
> > - I say just bump it even though the event happened 12 days ago, so it
> > will work from now on, but not for people who have a system which landed
> > in those 12 days.
>
> Theoretical question.. why is there any problem at all with bumping
> the version whenver we want to? No code should break because all
> comparisions should be '>=' (or '<=') instead of '=='.
Right. In case what I said above wasnt clear I was advocating "bump
__FreeBSD_version now and use that for the test in the port. For people
who have a system dated in the past 12 days (time between API change and
version bump used as a feature test for it), let the port stay broken for
them"
Kris
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