from Vlad K: > On 2017-06-23 23:09, Grzegorz Junka wrote:
> > Fine. Considering that maintainers already apply patches to the latest > > quarterly branch. If there were to be OS version branches, it would > > mean that maintainers apart from what they are doing now would > > additionally need to apply selected patches to those OS version > > branches? > "OS version branches" would be a complete waste of time and resources, and it > would remove some level of separation/independence between the base and ports. > The crux of the problem here is so called "stable ports", not necessarily > tying them to the life cycle of a base release. It doesn't make sense to tie > version of a port to the base release. Especially with the new releng support > schedule that would mean 5 years per major version which is quite a lot. (snip) I personally can't see the rationale of many OS version branches of ports: far too much work. I had the thought of something like that for (NetBSD) pkgsrc: a very tall order, considering that pkgsrc has been ported to many OSes besides NetBSD. Imagine a separate branch of pkgsrc for every version and branch of NetBSD, FreeBSD, Linux, etc. I only follow the current branch of FreeBSD ports and pkgsrc, though now I have also become interested in pkgsrc-synth. Tom _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
