From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Jul 31 23:35:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from coredump.lovett.com (hub.lovett.com [216.60.121.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF3BD37BA0B; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 23:35:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ade@lovett.com) Received: from ade by coredump.lovett.com with local (Exim 3.15 #1) id 13JFLd-000BNe-00; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 08:11:13 -0500 Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 08:11:13 -0500 From: Ade Lovett To: asmai@FreeBSD.org Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Diking out ports a.out support Message-ID: <20000731081113.I735@FreeBSD.org> References: <200006230927.CAA23802@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000623080800.F77304@argon.gryphonsoft.com> <3953573F.7B95B83E@FreeBSD.org> <20000623094306.I44870@FreeBSD.org> <20000628221306.G31775@dragon.nuxi.com> <20000629103349.D31932@lovett.com> <20000701231144.A68949@mad> <20000701225008.C20888@FreeBSD.org> <20000701235931.C69938@argon.gryphonsoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <20000701235931.C69938@argon.gryphonsoft.com>; from andrews@technologist.com on Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 11:59:31PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 11:59:31PM -0400, Will Andrews wrote: > On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 10:50:08PM -0500, Ade Lovett wrote: > > Good. Because we're talking about 2.x-only options being removed. > > a.out support in particular. And you can't count 3.0-RELEASE. > > I'd like to see a.out support go too, because people who use 2.x systems > obviously have no need to use ports; we haven't officially supported 2.x > in a long time; bento hasn't build 2.x packages in a very long time, > etc. etc. > > I don't see why we can't pull PORTOBJFORMAT pending the 4.1-RELEASE. Satoshi, Now that 4.1-RELEASE is out of the door, and we have until around November until 4.2, can we get "official" go-ahead to kill a.out support from ports? -aDe [somewhere in Gatwick Airport] -- Ade Lovett, Austin, TX. ade@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message