From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Mar 16 17:23: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mailgate.originative.co.uk (mailgate.originative.co.uk [62.232.68.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E174037B718; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 17:23:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paul@freebsd-services.co.uk) Received: from freebsd-services.co.uk (lobster.originative.co.uk [62.232.68.81]) by mailgate.originative.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 339051D149; Sat, 17 Mar 2001 01:23:00 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <3AB2BC97.6CCF6F6B@freebsd-services.co.uk> Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 01:23:35 +0000 From: Paul "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Richards=FC?=" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Will Andrews Cc: Chris Dillon , Kris Kennaway , Alfred Perlstein , Jim Mock , Steve O'Hara-Smith , arch@FreeBSD.ORG, j mckitrick , jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More BETA evilness Re: BETA induced nervousness References: <3AB2B9F4.B772ED78@freebsd-services.co.uk> <20010316201917.G61859@ohm.physics.purdue.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Will Andrews wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 01:12:20AM +0000, Paul Richardsü wrote: > > It doesn't seem like setting the OS version to beta gains us anything, > > we might as well do > > Wrong. You obviously never tried building ports before only to discover > that they break in strange ways because of stupid version checking configure > scripts or otherwise. This was a real problem in the olden days. We > still need to do this to catch other mistakes. > > IMO we still need something, but it need not be called BETA, it can be > called PRERELEASE (which is what Kris suggested). Or ports fixing happens after the -release tag is laid. That seems more logical to me, finalise the OS then check all the ports work. It would also be the case that if ports were more portable across FreeBSD versions this would be less of any issue. Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message