Split and cleanup of Porters Handbook

[Tom Rhodes]

On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 02:42:30 -0500
linimon at lonesome.com (Mark Linimon) wrote:

> I'm quite concerned that it will be more difficult to figure out when new
> text was introduced, or old text was changed.  There have been several
> times in the past that I have tried to find out "why is XYZ being done, is
> that just something from the old days?  When was it introduced?" and have
> been unable to, due to the fact that years ago there was some kind of
> repocopy and split (off from the Handbook, perhaps?) and it's so obscure
> that it's just not possible to track it all down.
> 
> I have had some ideas in the past on how to reorg the handbook in terms
> of "policies (which will be enforced) vs. best practices (which is what
> portmgr recommends", and further split the thing up into a Ports Users'
> Guide vs. what really ought to be in the "Porter's Handbook", but I have
> been far enough away from doc work for a while that I think I have to admit
> I won't get around to this anytime in the next month or two.
> 

Well, 20+ megabytes of space isn't much.  And storage space is
nice and cheap these days.

-- 
Tom Rhodes