Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 18:12:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> To: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com> Cc: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/add Makefile add.hextract.c Makefilesrc/usr.sbin/pkg_install/delete Makefile delete.h main.c perform.c ... Message-ID: <20040811180725.E54010@ync.qbhto.arg> In-Reply-To: <8576C147-EBF7-11D8-887A-00039312D914@fillmore-labs.com> References: <8576C147-EBF7-11D8-887A-00039312D914@fillmore-labs.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Oliver Eikemeier wrote:
> Before I get a million replies to this commit: When anyone from re@ thinks it
> is worth the effort, I will add an -c option to the C pkg_version code ASAP.
I am happy to let re@ make the decision regarding the proper course of
action here.
> I believe backing this out won't be beneficial for -STABLE users, since
> they'll loose a lot of features (and speed). Has anyone on this thread *ever*
> used that option?
None of these arguments are relevant, sorry. One of the key principles
for a -stable branch is not violating trust with our users that "how
things work is how they will always work" without a really good reason.
"It's better, stronger, faster!" is not a really good reason.
One of the key reasons for the failure of the 3.x branch was that we
called it "stable" but we kept messing around with it. This dramatically
delayed the uptake of the branch, which caused a lot of problems to stay
problems such that a majority of our user base went from 2.x to 4.x
instead of using 3.x at all. We were dangerously close to making this
same mistake in 5.x, but I think that the current re@ group has done a
pretty good job of limiting the number of things that might bite us in
the butt down the road.
I'd still like to see the change to pkg_version backed out, and the old
one restored.
Doug
--
This .signature sanitized for your protection
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20040811180725.E54010>