Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 02:24:54 -0800 From: Doug Barton <DougB@DougBarton.net> To: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> Cc: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com>, will@physics.purdue.edu, jtm63@enteract.com, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: end of 3-stable support Message-ID: <3AC30D76.DD2022DB@DougBarton.net> 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>
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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
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