portsnap base thought

[Colin Percival]

Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-Aug-28 01:20:38 -0700, Colin Percival wrote:
>>My biggest concern with doing this in a minor release is the question of
>>removing ports.tgz.  That tarball has been on the release CDs for an awfully
>>long time, and I'm sure there are people who will be quite astonished if it
>>suddenly disappears.
> 
> Since there's space, include both in 6.x, with ports.tgz marked as
> deprecated.  If you consider 6.0 to be an "early adopter's" release,
> you can probably get away with claiming that ports.tgz has been
> deprecated for the 6.x tree and can therefore be dropped in 7.x

As far as I know, there are no plans for 6.0 to be declared an "early
adopter's" release.  As always, such announcements can only come from the
release engineering team, but the last I've heard is that the 6-STABLE
branch will start with 6.0-RELEASE.

Colin Percival