Who was the mental genius

[Guido Falsi]

On 06/05/14 23:43, Paul Schmehl wrote:
> --On June 5, 2014 at 11:18:31 PM +0200 "A.J. 'Fonz' van Werven"
> <freebsd at skysmurf.nl> wrote:
> 
>> Paul Schmehl wrote:
>>
>>> That decided it was a good idea to completely break ports to force
>>> people to upgrade?  You couldn't come up with a warning system instead
>>> of outright breaking ports?  The idiots are apparently running the
>>> asylum.  {{sigh}}
>>
>> It might help to know exactly what you're talking about... What is it
>> that
>> broke?
>>
> 
> The change to make that causes this when you run pkg commands or try to
> build ports:
> 
> Unknown modifier 't'
> 
> It was done deliberately to break ports so that people would be forced
> to upgrade to a supported version.
> 
> <https://forums.freebsd.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=46291>

No it was not done "deliberately"

Newer freebsd version moved to a newer make utility, and support for the
old one has been dropped after support for all old releases containing
it was ceased.

Which releases are supported and for how long is well known, and
published in here when a new release is published:

http://www.freebsd.org/security/security.html#sup

The updates are free, as in "no payment needed". What's keeping you from
performing a binary update of the base system every year or so?

Running such an old system as any of the unsupported releases is also
most probably exposing you to security vulnerabilities.

Sometimes to change things you need to break compatibility, the project
did wait till it was coherent with what was promised before doing this.

-- 
Guido Falsi <mad at madpilot.net>