On Sun, 2015-06-14 at 15:00 -0700, Simon J. Gerraty wrote: > Garrett Cooper <yaneurab...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Breaking source upgrades to later versions is painful. We want to make > > sure fmake at least works with upgrade_checks so people can upgrade > > from earlier versions of 8/9/10 to 11 without having to deal with a > > lot of pain. > > I agree but 8 -> 11 is a very big jump. >
Not really. We're in the midst of such a change at $work, but it will be literally years before we're no longer doing anything with 8 and are fully converted to 11. We'll have completely skipped 9 and 10 in the process. That's the reality of being a company smaller than Yahoo or Juniper -- we just don't have the resources to track -current. We're lucky if we can get enough resources to make a jump every 4 or 5 years. In the meantime I've got to support building products on everything from 6.x through -current using basically the same source base and build machinery. The fmake->bmake change has been fairly painful; it's only working at all for us because I've hacked fmake on 6.x and 8.x to support a few crucial bmake features. -- Ian _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
