Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 14:00:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: kris@FreeBSD.org (Kris Kennaway) 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 Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/net/ucd-snmp Makefile ports/net/ucd-snmp/patches patch-al patch-am patch-an Message-ID: <200005182100.OAA18536@bubba.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005171944110.83878-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> from Kris Kennaway at "May 17, 2000 07:45:33 pm"
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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
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