TODO items for 5.3R

[Tom Rhodes]

On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 14:17:24 -0700
"Bruce A. Mah" <bmah at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 14:08, Tom Rhodes wrote:
> 
> > > I was toying around about a year ago with a way to make a doc CD-ROM
> > > that had renderings of the entire doc tree.  Last time I hauled it out a
> > > few months ago, it mostly worked.  It's in doc/release.  Not sure if
> > > this is interesting or useful.
> > 
> > The only problem with this is that OpenBoot needs to be explicitly
> > informed about a bootable disc.  Of course, that doesn't stop
> > companies like BSDMall for example, from shipping a little card
> > for this architecture.
> 
> Ah, sorry, I meant that the "doc disk" would *only* have the data on
> it.  Think of a CD-ROM with a bunch of HTML, PDF, etc. files on it.  
> 
> I was thinking that someone would be able to burn a "doc disk" CD-ROM,
> and presto, they'd have an off-line Handbook.  Obviously they need
> something to view the files, but this eliminates the need for them to
> have network access.

Heh, there is probably a market there ya know.  And ok, I mistook
your original comment which I interpreted as a 'CD-ROM which
booted into the docs'.  It sounds logical enough to create,
but would it be worth the hassle.  I doubt it would be for
a 'free project' but a company may jump on this.

Anyway, I see no reason why we couldn't release a documentation
ISO file with the release, but of you and hrs, I'm the only
one NOT on re@ (surprise, huh!  I'm every other damn place!).

I'll look into this tonight I guess.  I think my original idea
did have the notion of a documentation CD which was arch-specific.

-- 
Tom Rhodes