From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Jan 14 18:10:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA00208 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 18:10:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ppp6544.on.bellglobal.com (ppp6544.on.bellglobal.com [206.172.208.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA00180; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 18:10:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ac199@hwcn.org) Received: from localhost (tim@localhost) by ppp1710.on.bellglobal.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA01455; Sun, 11 Jan 1998 13:41:52 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from ac199@hwcn.org) X-Authentication-Warning: ppp1710.on.bellglobal.com: tim owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 13:41:51 -0500 (EST) From: Tim Vanderhoek X-Sender: tim@localhost Reply-To: ac199@hwcn.org To: "David E. O'Brien" cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/handbook porting.sgml In-Reply-To: <199801102346.PAA03453@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 10 Jan 1998, David E. O'Brien wrote: > Log: > Add note that "version required" should be kept upto date. After speaking > with Satoshi, it seems only the "Date created" and "Author" shouldn't be > updated. > > Now I 100% find "version required" to be totally useless, as apose to the > 5% usefulness in documenting the first version used for the port. I think Satoshi's almost got it right. :) As a "minimum distfile version this port makefile has a reasonable chance of working with", it is potentially useful. One could want to build an older version if the ported version is known buggy in some way. -- tIM...HOEk OPTIMIZATION: the process of using many one-letter variables names hoping that the resultant code will run faster.