On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 06:57:15PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > On Jun 23, 2014, at 6:15 PM, Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc_at_FreeBSD.org> wrote: > > So, I guess that stable/9 can build properly on a stable/10 box. > > For FreeBSD 9.2, there is no easy way out. > > You’ll have to back port the patch then. We don’t guarantee forward > compatibility like this since 9.2 is frozen in time now. > I'd really like to discuss rethinking our forward-compatibility policies, since we have (now) 3 active stable/ branches, plus head/. What I would like to see, with my RE hat on, is a "best effort" backwards compatibility to being able to build the lowest-numbered supported stable/ branch on head/. Sure, this won't always work, but "best effort" is better than "no effort", which the latter is why we do not have stable/8 snapshot builds, to be honest. I won't spend the time on the stable/8/release/ code nor the snapshot build scripts to waste the time. Building stable/9 on head/ is annoying alone. Glen
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