Andrew Berg wrote: > On 2014.09.01 22:09, Michelle Sullivan wrote: > >> That's my point - there was a patch waiting to submit that knowingly >> broke pkg_install at midnight on the day after the EOL... the EOL >> shouldn't be an EOL - because it was really a 'portsnap after this date >> before you upgrade and you're screwed it won't work any more at all...' >> > As Peter outlined, this EOL was announced long ago, and it was mentioned at > least once that it was to allow breaking changes. There really would be no > reason to drop support for it in the ports tree if there were no plans to make > changes. >
The point is the EOL was not an EOL, it was a deadline, either switch or you're screwed, and it was communicated as an EOL not as a "here's a deadline, switch or you're screwed" -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ _______________________________________________ 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"
