cvs commit: ports/emulators/rtc Makefile ports/emulators/rtc/files rtc.c

[Kris Kennaway]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 02:05:27PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Mike Silbersack wrote:
> 
> >
> > On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >
> > > >   *Actually* make rtc work on post-502104 -CURRENT.
> > >
> > > Is a PORTREVISION bump needed?
> > >
> > > Kris
> >
> > It couldn't hurt, thanks for the reminder.
> 
> I know I harp on this a lot, but I'm curious about this one. Why is a
> portrevision bump useful here? I see two possibilities:
> 
> 1. A user has a working version of the port.
> 2. A user did not have a working version of the port, therefore it
> wasn't installed.
> 
> In the first case the bump is harmful, since it causes the user to
> upgrade something for no benefit. In the second case, the bump is
> meaningless.
> 
> Is there a part of this picture that I'm not seeing?

As I understood it, prior to this commit there was a window where the
port would compile but not run.  This would have required special
action for the user to recover from (i.e. manual recompile).

Kris
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