Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 07:28:23 +1000 (EST) From: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> To: eivind@FreeBSD.org (Eivind Eklund) Cc: jb@cimlogic.com.au, obrien@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc make.conf Message-ID: <199905022128.HAA13985@cimlogic.com.au> In-Reply-To: <19990502142408.C23950@bitbox.follo.net> from Eivind Eklund at "May 2, 1999 2:24: 8 pm"
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Eivind Eklund wrote: > No, we should not. We do NOT want to drive the developers and testers > of perl away from FreeBSD. > > Besides, the perl build is broken (try typing plain 'make' in > /usr/src), and markm won't/wouldn't accept patches that fix it without > them having been tested on upgrade from 2.2, 3.0-aout and 3.0-elf, > which I've not had the time to do. For 4.x-current, I don't think we should support source upgrades from old aout releases. There are too many combinations to test and I doubt that anyone has enough hardware and enough spare time to repeatedly work on this stuff. -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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