Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2016 10:21:18 -0453.75 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: old ports/packages Message-ID: <3ae2f03e-2753-0a75-0123-9f85c05b0eaf@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <2d6eddea-0de7-6963-c1ca-a734aaa5a75a@FreeBSD.org> References: <03cc4012-026e-c007-09e1-ee45524f1b95@elischer.org> <B32DD056A6281C191CD35AA2@ogg.in.absolight.net> <c528a76d-5b94-01a3-f27e-7d174faf544e@freebsd.org> <1FAFDF989841D03604BB448B@atuin.in.mat.cc> <7b8d22c6-1fed-d517-9f89-693b88dfc358@freebsd.org> <20160504070341.GV740@mail0.byshenk.net> <3dfd6fea-da32-b922-65d1-f64b8e113112@toco-domains.de> <6e340f95-6d10-4991-0cd6-95d336e2f044@gjunka.com> <3e55c7d8-801c-a2b3-e92e-9945e896142b@toco-domains.de> <5809f808-8b16-93ed-5351-828a7d68eb2b@unsane.co.uk> <c71c19de-f712-6116-cdb3-10580054ab23@toco-domains.de> <574ED144.1050603@quip.cz> <9D785F08-AB0B-4324-B1B3-286D90AF9BF7@lastsummer.de> <20160603172313.3b2353b0@raksha.tavi.co.uk> <daf63beb-5450-3055-17f7-b706b343e42d@FreeBSD.org> <de42dfb6-3b51-a02a-a370-7a626b1ac3fa@gjunka.com> <2d6eddea-0de7-6963-c1ca-a734aaa5a75a@FreeBSD.org>
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On 06/04/16 09:24, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 04/06/2016 14:50, Grzegorz Junka wrote: >> On 04/06/2016 13:45, Matthew Seaman wrote: >>> On 03/06/2016 17:23, Bob Eager wrote: >>>> Why not just use odd numbered releases? That's what I do. They have a >>>> longer support cycle. >>> Remember though that this model is changing with 11.0 release. With the >>> new model, it's the 11.x family as a whole that has the long term >>> support and individual releases such as 11.0 or 11.1 will cease to be >>> supported very shortly after the next release in that series comes out. >>> The last release in that series will then have a long support life so >>> that 11.x as a whole has something like a 5 year lifecycle[*]. The >>> transitions from 11.0 -> 11.1 -> 11.2 -> ... are meant to be something >>> you could apply pretty much routinely; much as you'ld apply a new >>> patch-level today. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Matthew >>> >>> [*] which is pretty much the same length as the the lifecycle of >>> previous major branches has been up to now. >>> >> Is there somewhere any more information available about this change? >> > https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2015-February/001624.html > > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8991960 > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > One point of order if I may: It was stated earlier in the thread that binary compatibility throughout a major release cycle (X.n-R, as 'n' varies) is a specification. That is not explicitly addressed in the above URL's, as far as I can see. Is that indeed considered a specification ? If so, it would seem to satisfy the LTS desire implicitly. TIA & have a good one. -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.
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