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Date:      Mon, 17 Feb 1997 13:29:06 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
To:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com>
Cc:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-user@freefall.freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit:  src/contrib/gcc/config/i386 freebsd-elf.h freebsd.h
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970217125906.28806A-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19970216220439.PC60948@dragon.nuxi.com>

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On Sun, 16 Feb 1997, David O'Brien wrote:

> > It's too late for this.  BSD4.4 has been out for years without it.  To
> > begin with, using it would stop ports from running under old versions of
> > FreeBSD except when using it is bogus.
> 
> True, but ports track -current.

True, but the installed base -current is probably a lot smaller
than various stable versions.  It is a shame that many ports
arrogantly disregard the substantial installed base of
"pre-current" when supporting them is often a trivial #ifdef
patch.  I was annoyed to find that the apache port doesn't even
compile on something as recent as 2.2-BETA!  Apache is certainly
a port of great interest to the "legacy" installed base. 

There are ports that simply won't fly on old versions; for
example stuff that requires a reasonably modern c++ compiler, but
many simply don't have a good excuse for being -current only. 

-john




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