From owner-cvs-all Thu May 18 14: 0:36 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from bubba.whistle.com (bubba.whistle.com [207.76.205.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDDE637B954; Thu, 18 May 2000 14:00:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from archie@whistle.com) Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.whistle.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) id OAA18536; Thu, 18 May 2000 14:00:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <200005182100.OAA18536@bubba.whistle.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/net/ucd-snmp Makefile ports/net/ucd-snmp/patches patch-al patch-am patch-an In-Reply-To: from Kris Kennaway at "May 17, 2000 07:45:33 pm" To: kris@FreeBSD.org (Kris Kennaway) Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 14:00:30 -0700 (PDT) Cc: billf@chc-chimes.com (Bill Fumerola), jruigrok@via-net-works.nl (Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven), cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kris Kennaway writes: > > Too much time passed, we can't retroactivly bump, it's a catch-22. > > This is -current, people are sort of expected to update it semi-regularly > - I say just bump it even though the event happened 12 days ago, so it > will work from now on, but not for people who have a system which landed > in those 12 days. Theoretical question.. why is there any problem at all with bumping the version whenver we want to? No code should break because all comparisions should be '>=' (or '<=') instead of '=='. If anyone is comparing _FreeBSD_version_ against values greater than the current value, then they can predict the future :-) -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message