From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Mar 29 2:25:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n37.san.rr.com (dt051n37.san.rr.com [204.210.32.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25B6A37B724; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 02:25:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DougB@DougBarton.net) Received: from DougBarton.net (Studded@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n37.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA18331; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 02:24:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DougB@DougBarton.net) Message-ID: <3AC30D76.DD2022DB@DougBarton.net> Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 02:24:54 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nate Williams Cc: Jordan Hubbard , will@physics.purdue.edu, jtm63@enteract.com, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: end of 3-stable support References: <004101c09df9$890ecd00$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <01022622184200.77206@jamestown.enteract.com> <20010226232552.H767@ohm.physics.purdue.edu> <20010227101131C.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <15004.3067.574082.950796@nomad.yogotech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nate Williams wrote: > > > If you want to run the latest and greatest apps, you can still try > > more recent ports collections in the hopes that they'll still work > > (nobody is going to go out of their way to break things for 3.x > > either) > > Actually, a number of people have stated that they want to 'break' > things for 3.X (ie; actively removing 3.X support from existing ports). There are a minority of ports that will be broken if the 3.x compatibility things are removed from them, but a fairly solid majority will continue to work, at least for a while. I have been firmly in the "let 3.x die" camp for longer than most, but my version of dropping support for 3.x in ports is simply stating that it's no longer officially supported, which lets maintainers off the hook if they can't continue supporting it. This is instead of the popular notion regarding going into existing ports and ripping out working code simply because it offends someone sense of cleanliness. Doug -- Perhaps the greatest damage the American system of education has done to its children is to teach them that their opinions are relevant simply because they are their opinions. Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message