Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 23:05:51 -0600 From: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> To: Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: svn-ports-head@FreeBSD.ORG, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.ORG>, ports-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, svn-ports-all@FreeBSD.ORG, gahr@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: svn commit: r308158 - in head: . lang lang/tcl82 x11-toolkits x11-toolkits/tk82 Message-ID: <20121204050551.GA31093@lonesome.com> In-Reply-To: <50BD3E01.7010309@FreeBSD.org> References: <201212031649.qB3Gnmt9076932@svn.freebsd.org> <50BCDC5C.3080006@FreeBSD.org> <20121203221806.GG86596@gahrfit.gahr.ch> <50BD3E01.7010309@FreeBSD.org>
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On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 06:04:17PM -0600, Bryan Drewery wrote: > This extends to things like gcc2x; I wish we still had ports for those, > and gcc34 is DEPRECATED because only 3 ports still require it. Nevermind > some developer may be using it to maintain maximum portability for their > project. Gentoo Portage has 30 something GCC versions available (10 of > which are "stable"). The counter-argument is: if something is in the ports tree, our users expect it to work. Keeping things around that have bitrotted merely means a bad experience for them. Furthermore, the more versions in the tree, the more users scratch their heads and say "yeah, sure, but which one should *I* use?" I suspect most people don't even see the DEPRECATED messages as they install things -- they simply scroll off the screen with the rest. OTOH I personally prefer a month or more of headsup; this way, at least one warning email from portsmon will have gone out to ports@. mcl
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