From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Mar 27 5:31:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from stampede.cs.berkeley.edu (stampede.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.45.124]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0B7414F44 for ; Sat, 27 Mar 1999 05:31:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asami@cs.berkeley.edu) Received: from silvia.hip.berkeley.edu ([207.92.173.144]) by stampede.cs.berkeley.edu (8.8.7/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA08843; Sat, 27 Mar 1999 05:30:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (from asami@localhost) by silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (8.9.2/8.6.9) id FAA22229; Sat, 27 Mar 1999 05:29:54 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 05:29:54 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199903271329.FAA22229@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: silvia.hip.berkeley.edu: asami set sender to asami@cs.berkeley.edu using -f To: nbm@mithrandr.moria.org Cc: sjr@home.net, jim@corp.au.triax.com, jorbeton@pilot.net, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <19990327152150.A57118@rucus.ru.ac.za> (message from Neil Blakey-Milner on Sat, 27 Mar 1999 15:21:50 +0000) Subject: Re: CVSup and Fetch From: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi "the Wraith" Asami) References: <199903261302.IAA19553@istari.home.net> <199903261348.FAA18790@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <19990327152150.A57118@rucus.ru.ac.za> Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * From: Neil Blakey-Milner * I think a better idea is to rather keep support for at least a release * (theoretically 3 months), using checks around places in bsd.port.mk that * use things in new versions. You are vastly underestimating the magnitude of the problem. :) For one thing, it's not only bsd.port.mk that needs those checks. Some changes in bsd.port.mk requires dozens or even hundreds of port Makefiles to be modified. We can't reasonably try to make that to work. And the fundamental flaw of your approach is that it will add more work to crunch time (just before the release). It has been proven in the past over and over that anything that adds more work to an already busy time is not a good idea. :> Satoshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message