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Date:      Sat, 20 Jan 2001 16:58:36 -0500
From:      Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>
To:        Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
Cc:        Gregory Sutter <gsutter@daemonnews.org>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: [john@sixgirls.org: [dn-articles] FreeBSD problems: newsworthy?]
Message-ID:  <20010120165836.G1262@puck.firepipe.net>
In-Reply-To: <20010120234228.A41947@rapier.smartspace.co.za>; from nbm@mithrandr.moria.org on Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 11:42:28PM %2B0200
References:  <20010120133038.C7492@klapaucius.zer0.org> <20010120234228.A41947@rapier.smartspace.co.za>

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On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 11:42:28PM +0200, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote:
> I've expressed before, and will express again, my incredible dislike of
> this port.mkversion "you have to upgrade or you can't use ports" thing
> from a user level.  Especially since we break it, and don't retain
> support even for the last release.  I previously offered to maintain
> support for the old version of the stuff, provide patches, and so forth,
> but Satoshi said he didn't want them in or something.
>=20
> I don't believe it's incredibly hard to provide this compatibility for
> at least the latest release, or maybe even a few releases.  It will also
> irritate users less - I get complaints about it from my converts a lot.

Yes.  I think the system needs to be rewritten a little.  The
documentation of it on /ports could be better too.

Perhaps an RFC is needed on ports@ with Satoshi on the line.

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