From owner-cvs-all Wed Apr 18 13:40:49 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from diamond.gpad.ac.ru (diamond.gpad.ac.ru [193.233.9.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 409F837B423; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 13:40:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dima@cavia.landau.ac.ru) Received: from cavia.landau.ac.ru (ppp157.dialup.corbina.ru [195.14.32.157]) by diamond.gpad.ac.ru (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f3IKd4e21298; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 00:39:10 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from dima@cavia.landau.ac.ru) Received: (from dima@localhost) by cavia.landau.ac.ru (8.11.3/8.11.2) id f3IKYOh10660; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 00:34:24 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from dima) Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 00:34:16 +0400 From: Dmitry Sivachenko To: Paul Richards Cc: Maxim Sobolev , Jordan Hubbard , mi@aldan.algebra.com, will@physics.purdue.edu, jedgar@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, asami@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/net/samba-devel Makefile distinfo pkg-plist ports/net/samba-devel/files patch-aa patch-af Message-ID: <20010419003416.B10067@netserv1.chg.ru> References: <3ADDD24C.8EEC6053@FreeBSD.org> <486700000.987618197@lobster.originative.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <486700000.987618197@lobster.originative.co.uk>; from paul@originative.co.uk on Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 07:23:17PM +0100 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 07:23:17PM +0100, Paul Richards wrote: > --On Wednesday, April 18, 2001 20:43:41 +0300 Maxim Sobolev > wrote: > > > Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > > >> Perhaps I should have made my position more clear: FreeBSD 4.3 will > >> not ship with a broken samba. If necessary, we'll simply delay the > >> release until it's fixed. > > > > It isn't broken per se. The problem is that the ports freeze did not > > catch new, long awaited, 2.2.0 release, thus 2.2.0 package will not be > > shiped with 4.3 (but older 2.0.7 will). > > Hmm, if the release of FreeBSD 4.3 can be held up because of Samba 2.2, > then what about Gnome 1.4? > > Gnome 1.4 is a hell of a lot more effort to download and build than Samba > 2.2 so it would be a lot more beneficial to have that on the CD than the > newest Samba. How close to being ready is the Gnome 1.4 port, Ade? I also > suspect that the majority of users will see more benefit from it that > Samba-2.2, which mostly benefits corporates with Win NT/2k boxes. > > Perhaps release dates should be arranged in liaison with some of these > other projects in future. That would be good for our relationships with > other projects, and our own product too. > > I think delaying the release so that it includes the best current versions > of some key ports is a good idea so I'm in favour of the slippage, but > doing it for Samba does sort of set a precedence and if Gnome 1.4 was to > get committed in the next few day there'd be a strong case for including it. > samba, GNOME, postgresql-7.1, ...... Every day new releases of software appear. It will be endless cycle of waiting new and new releases... Let's just release FreeBSD, or it will never happen :-) --dima To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message