On 29 March 2010, at 08:57, Ivan Voras wrote: > In some cases the burdens are obvious - the maintainer(s) would need to > e.g. maintain three versions of the ports - a random example would be > e.g. X.Org 7.0 for 6.x, 7.2 for 7.x and 7.4 for 8.x. Another would be > keeping PHP 5.2 for 7.x and 8.x and having 5.3 in the future > (CURRENT/9.x) branch.
I am a bit concerned about your concept of maintain, being able to build a port successfully, does not necessarily mean it will work properly. For example, qpopper (which I maintain) has an issue where one feature does not work properly on 64 bit machines where it works fine on 32 bit machines. In addition, there are a number of other machine types that are currently not heavily used but might become so in the future. Thats a lot of different combinations of hardware and OSs to keep running for the maintainers. _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
