On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 21:19 +0100, Henrik Nordstrom wrote: > tis 2007-03-20 klockan 19:40 +0100 skrev Thomas-Martin Seck: > > > I'd love to but I cannot easily distribute development snapshots > > via FreeBSD ports; > > Understood, so PRE releases is what you can use. > > > I considered to chase Squid-3-PRE but since the interval between PRE > > releases is a bit long for a software in development, users would be > > permanently stuck with way outdated software and consistently be told > > to update when they report errors. > > The Squid-3 PRE release cycle matches the Squid-3 development quite well > I would say.. > > > If known good PRE-snapshots were > > released on a more regular time frame -- say once a month -- and be kept > > on the FTP/HTTP mirrors for some time I'd love to make them available > > for FreeBSD ports. > > The PRE releases is meant to serve this purpose. Just that we don't make > new PRE releases unless there has been significant improvements since > the last and that there is no known major blockers.. > > Squid-3 was known majorly broken for years, so no PRE releases was > made.. and currently there is at least one blocker for PRE4 but with a > patch pending. > > I don't think packaging PRE4 in ports when released is such a bad idea. > But clearly labeled as a pre-release and not a stable "supported" > release.
I agree that it is a good idea to start tracking Squid3 PRE releases for FreeBSD ports (and such). Hopefully, the releases will correspond to major updates and will morph into a stable release in the foreseeable future. Also, for "hot fixes" of a PRE release, a FreeBSD port can contain patches. Many ports do that, of course. Thank you, Alex.