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Subject: Re: svn commit: r420670 - head/Mk/Uses
To: Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org>, John Marino <marino@FreeBSD.org>,
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On 8/23/2016 07:42, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> +--On 23 août 2016 12:33:13 +0000 John Marino <marino@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> | Author: marino
> | Date: Tue Aug 23 12:33:13 2016
> | New Revision: 420670
> | URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/420670
> |
> | Log:
> |   Mk/Uses/alias.mk: Fix typo, remove "8" option
> |
> |   The "8" refers to FreeBSD 8.x which is no longer supported by the
> |   ports tree.  It's never been used (to my knowledge) so just remove the
> |   option altogether.
>
> Maybe it needs a 12 argument, now, to be complete, no ?


Eventually.  In practice the default should be the lowest supported 
FreeBSD and in practice it should never be set to the unstable version. 
There are probably less than 5 instances of using arguments.  It's 
pretty rare for the s/w to be checking the value of __FreeBSD__ and 
really rare for that same s/w to already support FreeBSD 12.

I was thinking about bringing in 12 when 9 falls off or 12 is released, 
whichever comes first.  That should be okay.

John