On Mon, 4 Mar 2013 21:06:58 -0500 Eitan Adler <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 4 March 2013 15:42, Alexander Leidinger <[email protected]> > wrote: > > It would be nice if the patches results in a nice explanation for > > the user trying to use some linux stuff on 7.x. > > -1. 7.x is now EoL and we should be removing compatibility cruft as > soon as the ports tree is tagged. > Ports in general are no longer guaranteed to function at all on 7.x > machines. "no longer guaranteed" is different from "it's known to not work". The change René presents is of the second form. As such userfriendlyness mandates that there is a message which tells in clear text that it does not work instead of letting the user run into a wall without explanation. As soon as you remove compatibility shims (but the make syntax is still compatible), you should make a test at the beginning of bsd.port.mk which then tells the user that the ports collection doesn't work on OSVERSION < xxx anymore. Just because we know that 7.x is EoL doesn't mean that users know about it too, and a clear message is much more helpful than an obscure error message or a silent failure (e.g. installing linux ports which are not compatible). Bye, Alexander. -- http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID = B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID = 72077137 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-emulation To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
