From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 2 08:46:41 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB7E0106564A for ; Fri, 2 Apr 2010 08:46:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from linimon@lonesome.com) Received: from mail.soaustin.net (lefty.soaustin.net [66.135.55.46]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AEBC8FC19 for ; Fri, 2 Apr 2010 08:46:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.soaustin.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id D82B58C0B4; Fri, 2 Apr 2010 03:46:40 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 03:46:40 -0500 From: Mark Linimon To: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= Message-ID: <20100402084640.GB19647@lonesome.com> References: <4BA7E0B8.3080406@delphij.net> <4BAE2B4F.6060005@protected-networks.net> <4BB3FD5D.9070600@uffner.com> <86tyrvs3js.fsf@ds4.des.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <86tyrvs3js.fsf@ds4.des.no> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP: zlib updated [svn commit: r205471 - in head: . lib/libz lib/libz/contrib lib/libz/doc sys/sys] X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2010 08:46:41 -0000 On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 03:30:47PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > And yes, I *will* keep harping on this until people Get It. You're harping at the wrong people. Complain to the application authors, not to the poor slobs trying to maintain the ports collection. There's a lot of crap code out there on the internet. If we want to insist that all the application authors both a) write good code and that b) understands how FreeBSD does things, well, we can do that, but it's not going to have much effect. Probably 75%+ of the application authors neither know nor care that their code is being run on anything other than Linux. In extreme cases we've enountered authors who outright refuse to accept our patches, either due to philosophical disagreement or just due to the xtra hassle. I'd just be happy if we could keep what we have working, without "surprise" regressions. I'm not going to get in the business of trying to preach to the application authors. Feel free. mcl