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[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 12:13:18PM -0400, Ryan Steinmetz wrote:
> 
> On (07/07/14 17:55), Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> >+--On 7 juillet 2014 09:44:09 -0400 Ryan Steinmetz <zi at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> >| We should either add workarounds for older systems or a warning
> >| that will be printed if a user is running a FreeBSD release that lacks
> >| required functionality for the ports tree to function.
> >
> >Well, the ports tree is only guaranteed to work with supported FreeBSD
> >releases. So, if you're not running a supported release, you're on your own.
> >
> >We can't add bits and pieces of version checks around everything that won't
> >work with older releases.
> 
> We know what the supported releases are and we can easily add a check
> to the framework to verify that you are running a supported release and
> print a message if not.  This would be identical to what was done with
> the PKGNG checks/warnings.
> 
> The goal is to give the user a useful message ("You are using an
> unsupported version, please upgrade.") versus the errors that Barrie ran
> into ("Unknown modifier 't'" or "make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue").

Except that is that case it is impossible to catch it reliably, some impossible
to warn about it.

regards,
Bapt
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