On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 12:52:38PM +0200, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> Peter Pentchev wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 11:42:41AM +0200, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
[snip]
> > >
> > > Cool. Please indicate when you have last run completed, so we can start
> > > removing 3-stable specific hacks from ports (FETCH_BEFORE_ARGS, USE_NEWGCC,
> > > etc).
> >
> > Hmm.. I don't really think Satoshi meant we are completely stopping support
> > for 3.x in the Ports collection; just packages for the present.
>
> Please read the following PW's para several times ;):
>
> > > The next run
> > > which starts in a few hours will be the last one for 3-stable. Of
> > > course, this last set of packages will be left on ftp.FreeBSD.org for
> > > a long time, just like the last set of 2.2.* packages.
>
> (keywords are "last" and "will be left for a long time").
>
> > Or am I wrong?
>
> Well, considering that the most of the people from the porting team do not have a
> 3-stable box to test or debug ports on, and 3-stable package building on bento
> will be terminated, I think it would be fair to officially declare end of
> 3-stable support and remove 3-stable belts and whistles from the bsd.port.mk and
> ports' Makefiles.
I would still like to hear PW's opinion on this; it seems to me like
stopping package building might be viewed as a first step towards
dropping support for ports. Like, give people two weeks or something,
maybe a month, then kill the 3.x bits :)
Not that I don't agree with removing the 3.x bits - I've said several
times in the past that FETCH_BEFORE_ARGS oughta be removed or conditionalized
or something..
G'luck,
Peter
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