From owner-freebsd-perl@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 7 16:19:21 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: perl@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A61DF588; Mon, 7 Jul 2014 16:19:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-x231.google.com (mail-wi0-x231.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c05::231]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C074825F0; Mon, 7 Jul 2014 16:19:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wi0-f177.google.com with SMTP id r20so7200854wiv.16 for ; Mon, 07 Jul 2014 09:19:19 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=sender:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=BWqwb9LmiSgJI8FcYIyA1EEH+g948EQ0VJelL4dDe+w=; b=XZlRlf2U+kOx/NNDoyA6X2K+JvbqVmPC8NBFuMzy+xG7vJ6aX1BL81fldQNoEMDgJh XjeTXVszNl21xxBHVz7gfDRwIxA+EmFzoD9FRHtPHMl9vVjcGRV2dqQTyrB12Ir9e9h7 c/DDDGbK2wmo5umwoNUEOL2oimIB+M5LOJdTV1vodIA9LXaRdeY5Jjt4kmgUt9d4aX6B 4bAZcLtkmjtdPxDXa3X63XVlpLt9IDVsDVoAfY4E/j7UdBHWNrdp6pfZYMoymmw3Zdnw 1MQbUkj8yf84ZNO4KUxjvw85AKV8ZrdRTTPDxY9mbMsW4jz1Lfr2NFdUgpPanGtvdegL N9zA== X-Received: by 10.180.86.199 with SMTP id r7mr37617552wiz.20.1404749957070; Mon, 07 Jul 2014 09:19:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ivaldir.etoilebsd.net ([2001:41d0:8:db4c::1]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id o12sm116745009wiw.5.2014.07.07.09.19.15 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 07 Jul 2014 09:19:16 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Baptiste Daroussin Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 18:19:14 +0200 From: Baptiste Daroussin To: Ryan Steinmetz Subject: Re: p5-Git-Repository Message-ID: <20140707161913.GB97203@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> References: <53BA9AD8.7030906@myarcher.net> <20140707134409.GA12289@exodus.zi0r.com> <20140707161318.GB74596@exodus.zi0r.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="24zk1gE8NUlDmwG9" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140707161318.GB74596@exodus.zi0r.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Cc: Mathieu Arnold , Barrie Archer , perl@freebsd.org, portmgr@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-perl@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: maintainer of a number of perl-related ports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 16:19:21 -0000 --24zk1gE8NUlDmwG9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 12:13:18PM -0400, Ryan Steinmetz wrote: >=20 > On (07/07/14 17:55), Mathieu Arnold wrote: > >+--On 7 juillet 2014 09:44:09 -0400 Ryan Steinmetz wrot= e: > >| We should either add workarounds for older systems or a warning > >| that will be printed if a user is running a FreeBSD release that lacks > >| required functionality for the ports tree to function. > > > >Well, the ports tree is only guaranteed to work with supported FreeBSD > >releases. So, if you're not running a supported release, you're on your = own. > > > >We can't add bits and pieces of version checks around everything that wo= n't > >work with older releases. >=20 > We know what the supported releases are and we can easily add a check > to the framework to verify that you are running a supported release and > print a message if not. This would be identical to what was done with > the PKGNG checks/warnings. >=20 > The goal is to give the user a useful message ("You are using an > unsupported version, please upgrade.") versus the errors that Barrie ran > into ("Unknown modifier 't'" or "make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot= continue"). Except that is that case it is impossible to catch it reliably, some imposs= ible to warn about it. regards, Bapt --24zk1gE8NUlDmwG9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlO6yIEACgkQ8kTtMUmk6EzB6QCePYxt82ZPEDk4wLpyzp9BO/3H KCAAoJGhaZ48MFc5TrN3Fia55sWD783U =XGdn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --24zk1gE8NUlDmwG9--