On 10/27/2012 9:40 AM, Eitan Adler wrote: > On 27 October 2012 10:34, Chris Rees <utis...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> This "weeks" is making a assumptions that users 1. reads ports@ or 2. >>> Update to security/errata patches in a timely manner or 3. Read UPDATING >> >> Quite. This should be at least a few months, otherwise we're making >> unreasonable requests of our users, and yet again annoy them by >> breaking older versions-- this time with no real benefit for >> end-users. > > +1 > > I would venture to guess that most of our users don't even read -announce. > > In addition there are non-ports concerns here. Many people probably > have custom Makefiles they use for their own projects which may rely > on existing behavior. > >
I apologize for not reading the full thread. Could there be a make.conf/env setting to make bmake run AS pmake in full compat mode? On by default until all older branches are EoL, then it can flip and be optional. Or even via a symlink, whatever it is invoked as is what mode it runs in. Bryan _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
