Re: Dfly-1.2.0 using fbsdports+firebirdsql

["Martin P. Hellwig" <mhellwig@xxxxxxxxx>]

Chris Pressey wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 16:32:25 +0200
> Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai <asmodai@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> > -On [20050420 12:02], Thomas E. Spanjaard (tgen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> >
> > > Does 'backport' sound any good?
> >
> > Ow, nice and generic, and not an acronym!
> >
> > +1
>
>
> Agreed.  I like 'backport', or maybe 'backmerge'.
>
> I think the reason MFC has "wordness" in FreeBSD is because it's so
> darned common, because of the branched development model.  In DragonFly
> it should be correspondingly less frequent, so the only real trick is
> to stop saying it out of habit :)
>
> -Chris

Well I remember that the first time I encountered MFC and asked what it 
was, they explained it that it was a _backport_ from the head to 
whatever branch it was in the context of the sentence.
So backport definitely hits high on my "uncomplicated word list" :-)

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