From owner-cvs-all Mon Jun 21 3:22:53 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C71C614C12; Mon, 21 Jun 1999 03:22:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA26428; Mon, 21 Jun 1999 12:22:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id MAA80832; Mon, 21 Jun 1999 12:22:24 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 12:22:24 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund To: "Brian F. Feldman" Cc: John Birrell , Bill Fumerola , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en/handbook/ports chapter.sgml Message-ID: <19990621122224.S63035@bitbox.follo.net> References: <199906210011.KAA07097@cimlogic.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Brian F. Feldman on Sun, Jun 20, 1999 at 08:03:45PM -0400 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Sun, Jun 20, 1999 at 08:03:45PM -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, John Birrell wrote: > > As a developer, I would never have thought to look in the ports section > > of the handbook for this sort of information. IMHO, the ports section > > is for use more often by people creating ports from other people's > > code. We need to document things in a way that suits the "other > > people" too. > > But __FreeBSD_version is mainly for the ports system anyway! Disagree. __FreeBSD_version is mainly so any developer that maintain something outside the FreeBSD tree can be able to make it work with most versions of FreeBSD. In a way, it is a testimony to our ineptness at creating and maintaining good APIs. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message