[nycbug-talk] 4.8 just too old?

[Bob Ippolito]

On Feb 6, 2006, at 3:57 PM, Charles Sprickman wrote:

> I've been so happy with 4.8 on a few machines that can't tolerate  
> downtime
> that I haven't even considered moving them to 4.11 yet.
>
> This however is a little troubling:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/list.freebsd.questions/browse_thread/ 
> thread/39606281a5ddd41/1c44a22413657210
>
> Rogue port or new ports policy?

It's probably more of a testing issue.  Not many port maintainers are  
running a three year old OS, so they might inadvertently use features  
of the base that didn't exist when 4.8 was released.  In this case  
the porter is using a particular feature of make that didn't exist  
back then.  Whoever made that change to the Makefile probably didn't  
even realize (or remember) that the syntax he used is a "relatively  
new" feature.

-bob