On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 08:12:02 +0200 Dominic Fandrey <kamik...@bsdforen.de> wrote:
> On 17/09/2010 06:41, Doug Barton wrote: > > On 9/16/2010 6:15 PM, Doug Barton wrote: > >> On 9/16/2010 3:35 PM, Anonymous wrote: > >>> Dominic Fandrey<kamik...@bsdforen.de> writes: > >>> > >>>> On 16/09/2010 19:17, Dmitry Marakasov wrote: > >>>>> * Dominic Fandrey (kamik...@bsdforen.de) wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>>> Just out of curiosity, why a version bump because of a build > >>>>>> dependency? > >>>>>> > >>>>>> I don't think an autoconf update should have an effect on any > >>>>>> /running/ software but build systems. And I don't see how > >>>>>> rebuilding all the software improves it. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> This is not a criticism - I just think there is something I > >>>>>> don't understand and that worries me. > >>> > >>> My guess is to uncover *early* build failures that exp-run didn't > >>> catch. > >> > >> We shouldn't use our users to beta-test infrastructure changes. > > > > Sorry, I'm not feeling well atm and realize that I didn't write > > what I was thinking here. What I intended to say was that we _don't_ > > intentionally use the ports system to force our users to beta test > > changes. I think it goes without saying that we _shouldn't_ do this, > > although I think that changes like this are a platinum-coated > > example of why we need to have -stable and -dev branches for ports. > > I used to disagree with this, because I thought it would create > additional work load. Indeed. And the increase it's not linear. > I have come to think more favourably of the idea, because you can > make more daring commits on a -dev branch and don't have to quick-fix > everything that goes wrong. Oh? (Not that I think fixes are being done that quick right now.) You need to do it fast, except for tip ports, because ports depend one on an other. > Also the time between a MFC does not have to be very long. A week > should be more than enough time to uncover and solve all problems. > So the delay to get updates and fixes on the -stable branch is not > very long. So you'd need a large userbase running -dev ports and updating very frequently. My2c: let's concentrate on pkg_install for now. -- IOnut - Un^d^dregistered ;) FreeBSD "user" "Intellectual Property" is nowhere near as valuable as "Intellect" FreeBSD committer -> ite...@freebsd.org, PGP Key ID 057E9F8B493A297B
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