Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 17:29:55 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: "Paul "@FreeBSD.ORG, "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Richards=FC?="@FreeBSD.ORG, " <paul@freebsd-services.co.uk>"@meow.osd.bsdi.com Cc: jkh@FreeBSD.org, j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, arch@FreeBSD.org, "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steveo@eircom.net>, Jim Mock <mij@osdn.com>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>, Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> Subject: Re: More BETA evilness Re: BETA induced nervousness Message-ID: <XFMail.010316172955.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <3AB2BC97.6CCF6F6B@freebsd-services.co.uk>
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On 17-Mar-01 Paul "Richardsü wrote: > 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. Umm, Paul, we usually release ports with the release you know. Like, at the same time. > That seems more logical to me, finalise the OS then check all the ports > work. This is called a release candidate and a release cycle. We do this work _before_ the release goes out, not after. > It would also be the case that if ports were more portable across > FreeBSD versions this would be less of any issue. No silly. This isn't bsd.port.mk junk this is stupid configure scripts that have hard-coded checks on the output of uname. > Paul. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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