Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 18:19:14 +0200 From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> To: Ryan Steinmetz <zi@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org>, Barrie Archer <enquiry@myarcher.net>, perl@freebsd.org, portmgr@freebsd.org Subject: Re: p5-Git-Repository Message-ID: <20140707161913.GB97203@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> In-Reply-To: <20140707161318.GB74596@exodus.zi0r.com> References: <53BA9AD8.7030906@myarcher.net> <20140707134409.GA12289@exodus.zi0r.com> <D6280EB537813A51DA64B820@ogg.in.absolight.net> <20140707161318.GB74596@exodus.zi0r.com>
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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 <zi@FreeBSD.org> 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
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