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Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 10:13:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jamie Bowden <jamie@itribe.net>
To: rdkeys@csemail.cropsci.ncsu.edu
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Subject: Re: Suggestions from a unix dummy.....
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On Tue, 26 Aug 1997 rdkeys@csemail.cropsci.ncsu.edu wrote:

> > 
> > On Mon, 25 Aug 1997, Tim Vanderhoek wrote:
> > 
> > > Officially ports are only supported on -stable.  This is to keep
> > > the amount of work manageable.  However, if you find a port that
> > > doesn't work on -current or any other release (PROVIDED you are
> > > using an up-to-date bsd.port.mk and friends), you are encouraged
> > > to send patches in a pr.
> > 
> > This is wrong, IMHO.  Ports should build on the latest official release.
> > 
> > Jamie Bowden
> 
> From the philosophical point of view, why is it not acceptable that 
ports
> should make on ANY FreeBSD box?  Assuming that one starts from fresh
> archive sources (and it seems to this unix dummy that they do) unless one
> has more than trivial patches, a make is a make is a make.    I have ported
> a lot of minor things to my boxes (aix/minix/linux/FreeBSD).  Aside from the
> quirks of my early aix 1.2 and my minix not being ``GCC compliant'', I find
> that essentially everything makes out of the box on all the machines.
> Porting is not that difficult anymore (99% of the time).  Most sources make
> out of the box with any sort of half-intelligent configure script.  That
> would make me still think a common ports tree across all FreeBSD platforms
> would be an ideal goal, and not that difficult to attain.  Then, again, I
> am just the unix dummy.....
> 
> Bob Keys
> rdkeys@csemail.cropsci.ncsu.edu
> 

There are significant changes from 1.x to 2.x, and from 2.1.x to 2.2.x.  I
am sure there are significant differences as well from 2.2.x to what will
be 3.x

Jamie Bowden

System Administrator, iTRiBE.net