Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 18:18:54 -0500 (CDT)
From: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
To: python@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Deprecation of lang/python{15,20}
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0404251814270.679-100000@pancho>
In-Reply-To: <200404251829.07062.x@Vex.Net>
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On Sun, 25 Apr 2004, Tim Middleton wrote: > On the other hand; if nothing depends on them, what harm can they do > to leave them? 1. User confusion: what's the "right" version? It also clutters up the port list web page. 2. Build resources: bento.FreeBSD.org continuously builds all packages both as a QA step, and to make them available to users who choose not to build from ports. 3. Download time: currently, anyone who wants to track the ports collection needs to download the entire tarball or track the CVS files (IMHO, this is a bug, but ...) In any case, the download time and tarball extraction is an annoyance for some users. mcl
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