On 6/18/15 9:48 PM, Ian Lepore wrote:
On Sun, 2015-06-14 at 15:00 -0700, Simon J. Gerraty wrote:
Garrett Cooper <yaneurab...@gmail.com> wrote:
Breaking source upgrades to later versions is painful. We want to make
sure fmake at least works with upgrade_checks so people can upgrade
from earlier versions of 8/9/10 to 11 without having to deal with a
lot of pain.
I agree but 8 -> 11 is a very big jump.
Not really. We're in the midst of such a change at $work, but it will
be literally years before we're no longer doing anything with 8 and are
fully converted to 11. We'll have completely skipped 9 and 10 in the
process. That's the reality of being a company smaller than Yahoo or
Juniper -- we just don't have the resources to track -current. We're
lucky if we can get enough resources to make a jump every 4 or 5 years.
In the meantime I've got to support building products on everything from
6.x through -current using basically the same source base and build
machinery. The fmake->bmake change has been fairly painful; it's only
working at all for us because I've hacked fmake on 6.x and 8.x to
support a few crucial bmake features.
-- Ian
you could be working at my $JOB.
we are upgrading from 8.0 to 10.x with an eye on 11.x as a possible
next small hop.
but we'll be shipping and fixing 8.0 for years.
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