[CFT/RFC]: refactor bsd.prog.mk to understand multiple programs instead of a singular program
Eitan Adler
lists at eitanadler.com
Sat Oct 27 14:40:44 UTC 2012
On 27 October 2012 10:34, Chris Rees <utisoft at gmail.com> wrote:
>> This "weeks" is making a assumptions that users 1. reads ports@ or 2.
>> Update to security/errata patches in a timely manner or 3. Read UPDATING
>
> Quite. This should be at least a few months, otherwise we're making
> unreasonable requests of our users, and yet again annoy them by
> breaking older versions-- this time with no real benefit for
> end-users.
+1
I would venture to guess that most of our users don't even read -announce.
In addition there are non-ports concerns here. Many people probably
have custom Makefiles they use for their own projects which may rely
on existing behavior.
--
Eitan Adler
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