From owner-cvs-all Sun Aug 27 14: 0:54 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from picalon.gun.de (picalon.gun.de [192.109.159.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30D8537B422; Sun, 27 Aug 2000 14:00:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by picalon.gun.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA02320; Sun, 27 Aug 2000 23:00:20 +0200 (MET DST) >Received: (from andreas@localhost) by klemm.gtn.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA37374; Sun, 27 Aug 2000 22:58:21 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from andreas) Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 22:58:21 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm To: Bill Fumerola Cc: Edward Wolpert , Andreas Klemm , cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, Andreas Klemm , Steve Price , Garrett Wollman Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/databases/p5-DBD-Pg Makefile ports/databas Message-ID: <20000827225820.A37044@titan.klemm.gtn.com> References: <20000827202609.A29786@titan.klemm.gtn.com> <20000827152643.U57333@jade.chc-chimes.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <20000827152643.U57333@jade.chc-chimes.com>; from billf@chimesnet.com on Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 03:26:43PM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE SMP X-Disclaimer: A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 03:26:43PM -0400, Bill Fumerola wrote: > On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 12:52:05PM -0600, Edward Wolpert wrote: > > > As far as should postgresql 7.x be called postgresql7 or postgresql, > > I somewhat agree with Klemm about the 'what if' case below. However, > > if this is the case, then the 6.x version of the port shouldn't have > > been deleted in the first place. > > If v6 is needed to be brought back since _it_ is the odd scenario, > _it_ would become postgresql6. > > Mainstream is 7, so databases/postgresql should be 7. Excuse me, but why do we then have/take the extra overhead of a repository copy if a new/parallel port with version numer is only intended to have a short/temporary lifetime ? Then repository copies doesn't make sense and all the involved work so far would be for nuts and additionally pollutes the Attic for no reason ! Andreas /// -- Andreas Klemm Powered by FreeBSD SMP Songs from our band >>64Bits<<............http://www.apsfilter.org/64bits.html My homepage................................ http://people.FreeBSD.ORG/~andreas Please note: Apsfilter got a NEW HOME................http://www.apsfilter.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message