From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Feb 23 16:35:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca (cr677933-a.ktchnr1.on.wave.home.com [24.43.230.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 388C037B4EC; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 16:35:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.11.1/8.9.3) with SMTP id f1O0X4i01726; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 19:33:05 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <004101c09df9$890ecd00$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: "Maxim Sobolev" Cc: "Satoshi Asami" , , References: <200102230817.f1N8HN506575@vader.clickarray.com> <3A963091.8058B7D@FreeBSD.org> <20010223123030.E1899@ringworld.oblivion.bg> <3A9640F6.BF54E7E@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: end of 3-stable support Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 19:34:22 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 11:42:41AM +0200, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > > > Satoshi Asami wrote: > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > As you may all know, the 3-stable branch has slowly being phased out > > > > for a while now. This is true for both the tree itself and the ports > > > > collection; fewer and fewer ports committers have 3-stable machines to > > > > test with, and the list of build errors kept growing little by little. > > Well, considering that the most of the people from the porting team do not have a > 3-stable box to test or debug ports on, and 3-stable package building on bento > will be terminated, I think it would be fair to officially declare end of > 3-stable support and remove 3-stable belts and whistles from the bsd.port.mk and > ports' Makefiles. This is true. Although I'm not a porter or committer, I'm a heavy user of FreeBSD and I try and keep all my systems as close-to-new as possible. I've found myself tripping over the 3.x cruft in bsd.port.mk a fair bit lately :) Should the whole "support for ports and packges" issue be formalized into a standard practice? I was thinking along the lines of "once .3 is released, then package building and ports-tree support for .x will be terminated." Essentially, this means that people need to freeze their prior-version systems or bite the bullet and upgrade them -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message