release cycle

[Chris]

On 02/06/07, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH <allbery at ece.cmu.edu> wrote:
>
> On Jun 2, 2007, at 3:45 , Chris wrote:
>
> > Given that Kris repeatedly tells me and others that the ports system
> > is only supported on the latest freebsd release (meaning one has to be
> > upgrading freebsd on their servers every few months to get this
> > support) if 7.0 and 6.3 are released around the same time will the
> > ports tree be supported on both?
>
> I think you're confused by terminology.  As I understand it, the
> ports tree is supported on -CURRENT and the latest -STABLE series:
> that is, currently on 6.x and 7.x (and possibly 5.x still since
> RELENG_5 and RELENG_6 were both being released for a while), but not
> RELENG_4 or earlier.
>
> --
> brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery at kf8nh.com
> system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery at ece.cmu.edu
> electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university    KF8NH
>
>
>

So my question remains when we have 7.0 and 6.3 both STABLE releases
will the ports tree not be supported in 6.3 a just released version of
FreeBSD?

Chris