On Friday 26 October 2007 12:00:54 pm Ken Smith wrote: > On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 11:41 -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > > On Friday 26 October 2007 10:53:47 am David O'Brien wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 05:31:03PM -0400, Ken Smith wrote: > > > > What we need to try and avoid unless *absolutely* *necessary* is the > > > > part Scott quoted above - binaries compiled on 6.3-REL should work on > > > > 6.2-REL unless there was a really big issue and the solution to that > > > > issue required us to break that. The reason is simple, people should be > > > > able to continue running 6.2-REL "for a while" and still be able to > > > > update their packages from packages-6-stable even after portmgr@ starts > > > > using a 6.3-REL base for the builds > > > > > > This is news to me. > > > I've never heard that we're that concerned with forward compatability > > > even on a RELENG branch. We do not break the ABI for backwards > > > compatability - in that everything (including kernel modules) that ran on > > > 6.2 must run on 6.3. > > > > Agreed. The solution to the shared /usr/local problem is to use the oldest > > version for /usr/local. That has always been the case. Forwards > > compatiblity (what you are asking for) is significantly harder to guarantee > > since accurately predicting the future isn't much a science. > > > > Yeah, sorry. I guess I've been a bit grumpy the past couple days and > over-stated the "*absolutely* *necessary*" part above. It should have > read "*necessary*", not "*absolutely* *necessary*". > > I'd just like us to question if it's necessary here. Is there a good > enough way to do this without causing the breakage? I sorta liked > Warren's question. Does this stuff need to be inlined and if not would > that solution avoid the breakage?
I can agree that in this instance it would be nice to keep RELENG_7 and HEAD from diverging too much right now. I was more concerned about there being a new general policy. Are you really sure you want forwards compat and not just backwards compat ABI? -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ cvs-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
