My wish list for 6.1

[Juhana Tahvanainen]

i think you got this one wrong.

what FreeBSD-Handbook-General should include:

everything that spans through all FreeBSD releases i.e.

# rm -rf /

(that is guaranteed to work in all FreeBSD systems)

but if some future release stops supporting this, then its removed from 
FreeBSD-Handbook-General and moved to FreeBSD-Handbook-BRANCH.x (to all 
branches that supports this).


---J



On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 06:01:37PM +0200 I heard the voice of
> Juhana Tahvanainen, and lo! it spake thus:
>>
>> how about:
>>
>> FreeBSD-Handbook-General is rather fixed once ready, only
>> maintenance needed is when some future release doesnt support
>> something anymore, that is removed and moved to
>> FreeBSD-Handbook-BRANCH.x.
>
> Difficult to manage.  You have to remember or know which branches to
> backport stuff to, and you can't then say "OK, we won't bother with
> 3.x anymore, but Handbook-3.x will remain around not needing further
> work for people using it", as future changes might not get pushed
> back.
>
> It would probably be easier using something like marked sections in a
> single handbook to separate out version-specific stuff from more
> general stuff; that way, at least it's all in one place, and you could
> just generate handbooks for any given branch off one source.  Of
> course, it can get ugly to look at, too..
>
>
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