From owner-cvs-all Mon May 3 4: 7:33 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C8BB14F6A; Mon, 3 May 1999 04:07:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA09695; Mon, 3 May 1999 13:07:14 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id NAA38989; Mon, 3 May 1999 13:07:14 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 13:07:13 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund To: Peter Wemm Cc: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami , mark@grondar.za, jb@cimlogic.com.au, obrien@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc make.conf Message-ID: <19990503130713.E38223@bitbox.follo.net> References: <199905030825.BAA82662@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <19990503103602.E1D8D1F50@spinner.netplex.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <19990503103602.E1D8D1F50@spinner.netplex.com.au>; from Peter Wemm on Mon, May 03, 1999 at 06:35:53PM +0800 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Mon, May 03, 1999 at 06:35:53PM +0800, Peter Wemm wrote: > I tend to agree. Going from 2.x to 3.x is a small burden for the end user > as a stepping stone to get to 4.x compared to the nightmares that we will > have in order to make 2.x -> 4.0-current work. > > I personally think that 4.0's 'make world' should be only required to work > from systems no older than (say) 3.0-elf, and even that's generous - > 3.0-RELEASE is quite old by today's standards. 4.0 is for developers. We've always had the policy that if you're going to go -current, you need to have the last release (ie, 3.1 at the moment). Is there any reason to change that policy? Eivind, who is one of those people who will have to upgrade some machines in two steps if the policy is kep, but still think it is a good policy. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message