Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 10:11:31 -0800 From: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com> To: will@physics.purdue.edu Cc: jtm63@enteract.com, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: end of 3-stable support Message-ID: <20010227101131C.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: <20010226232552.H767@ohm.physics.purdue.edu> References: <004101c09df9$890ecd00$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <01022622184200.77206@jamestown.enteract.com> <20010226232552.H767@ohm.physics.purdue.edu>
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Erm, this could have been handled with just a *bit* more tact. What's really being said here ISN'T that 3.x is a red-headed stepchild which nobody ever wants to work on again, there may indeed be additional commits to the 3-stable branch to address critical bug fixes and security holes and a few developers still have a vested interest in the branch. What's being discontinued is simply support by the ports team, and people running 3.x should be happy enough with a frozen ports tree. If you want to run the latest and greatest apps, you can still try more recent ports collections in the hopes that they'll still work (nobody is going to go out of their way to break things for 3.x either) or, as Will says, you can simply compile it yourself just as many other OS users do. The world is not ending here, James. :) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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