From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 5 23:27:20 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8BC72FD for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2013 23:27:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@eitanadler.com) Received: from mail-we0-x234.google.com (mail-we0-x234.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c03::234]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66DDD2F3 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2013 23:27:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-we0-f180.google.com with SMTP id k14so7044840wer.11 for ; Tue, 05 Mar 2013 15:27:19 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=eitanadler.com; s=0xdeadbeef; h=x-received:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=YentIS9xJikwixil/lVjhbYsIL0yqLTqwKPZ8Xt6pjo=; b=K4oI9rijCXRg1KXMh9nG5TN5QvCdwjMzfVXJt7PlNoYNJDLn71j0pxLB8pTT2Tn6wq cqqftkaBDrM2xnOigAXg0lrB7uBI+dCbN14qRUbfD2w+MdtuVcfV5Vf9N2IYZiwnuwXd v4t/5lP7prqpc02W1L6TdhfwzIOl6MV+SN2UM= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to:cc:content-type:x-gm-message-state; bh=YentIS9xJikwixil/lVjhbYsIL0yqLTqwKPZ8Xt6pjo=; b=Ny7RHlXBlC8jTqH6ttzMkVU4j7E0Dbx6DuWXe/GvDOxyjf+ADPxcnCNIOD7HjV/G2G 2Iuw47N3bqhpXUoOqRqflo9rh9C779h43oDoCadqgKL5+sWlXdpzzY87b3BFrL4ghz/z lXdriTe2MZPes1n3kDHZbdprlXVF1kmI4KeNF/uDs4e5bGYR2g0Agdec8meG6dD4jJaT fMu3drY7BGNEmIR2mElcuUlwbWbmzJFLtfF4P9qJE6tWeH8tkpjtOutYXI1uXYUwyeyV uTl5pbgEC219RLMkHgBblWftI6w1OF2pH5N5C9YApP2vCy9LR6T2/AUQgmpdcaSKjlDm zqFA== X-Received: by 10.194.242.197 with SMTP id ws5mr18784496wjc.44.1362526039463; Tue, 05 Mar 2013 15:27:19 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.194.44.130 with HTTP; Tue, 5 Mar 2013 15:26:49 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20130305212735.0000038b@unknown> References: <51349535.5040800@freebsd.org> <5134AB8C.2050202@gmail.com> <20130304214254.00004f27@unknown> <20130305212735.0000038b@unknown> From: Eitan Adler Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 18:26:49 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: removing old linux ports To: Alexander Leidinger Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQk/OuKtExdKU4Vv14IvOE9sB0WksxjkmDVV1WTrR27CDMK+cW5AgvFFTVi3n189MRuoD575 Cc: emulation@freebsd.org, =?UTF-8?B?UmVuw4PCqSBMYWRhbg==?= X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2013 23:27:20 -0000 On 5 March 2013 15:27, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > As soon as you remove compatibility shims (but the make syntax is > still compatible), you should make a test at the beginning of > bsd.port.mk which then tells the user that the ports collection doesn't > work on OSVERSION < xxx anymore. Just because we know that 7.x is EoL > doesn't mean that users know about it too, and a clear message is much > more helpful than an obscure error message or a silent failure > (e.g. installing linux ports which are not compatible). Understood. I would rather see this be a general error message than anything specific to the emulation@ ports. -- Eitan Adler