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[John Baldwin]

On Wednesday, February 01, 2017 03:39:57 PM Mark Linimon wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 08:09:50PM +0300, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote:
> > Also, I am think current ports don't build on 4.x.
> 
> I will personally guarantee, in writing, that current ports do not build
> on 4.x, nor have they done so for years.  I personally removed the legacy
> cruft when 4.11 finally went EOL.
> 
> > I am got complains about using ports on 8.x.
> 
> I am 99% certain that ports will not work on either 8.x or 9.x.  Legacy
> cruft was removed at the EOL in each of those cases.
> 
> Anyone who think that we can support ports on 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, 8.x,
> 9.x, 10.x, 11.x, and -current, all at the same time, needs to seek medical
> attention at once.  At the absolute least, that era spans 3 major versions
> of make(1) and two completely different package implementations.

I think Slawa's point was that my suggestion that people with old hardware
should run old releases means that they cannot use a modern ports checkout
with those older systems.  That point is correct, but you probably don't
want to run newer, more bloated 3rd party software on such gear either.

-- 
John Baldwin