Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 22:10:57 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, Joel Sutton <jsutton@bbcon.com.au>, freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux convert... Message-ID: <19991011221057.A2013@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <19991010132411.A315@marder-1>; from Mark Ovens on Sun, Oct 10, 1999 at 01:24:12PM %2B0100 References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910061503120.3043-100000@stargate.home> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910060118260.8080-100000@fw.wintelcom.net> <19991006234303.A28145@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <19991007204945.A817@marder-1> <19991009181219.A20278@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <19991010132411.A315@marder-1>
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On Sun, Oct 10, 1999 at 01:24:12PM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote:
> > Diffs! Diffs! Diffs!
> >
> > This is why it's now in the tree. I haven't got the time to maintain it
> > properly now, so the 'community' can support it. send-pr as usual should
> > do the trick.
> >
>
> Yes, OK. I'll try to get something done, but I'm rather busy right
> now; my father's had a bad stroke so I spend my weekends zapping
> up & down the M4/5/6 and the rest of the week catching up on lost
> sleep :(.
Sorry to hear that. I hope everything turns out OK.
> Actually I think that the article needs a major overhaul to bring
> it up to date. What is your opinion on removing the references to
> 2.1.x and the early (pre-make {build,install}world?
On the whole, I'd rather keep them. We're still thrashing out how best
to retain historical information in the documentation while still allowing
the possibility of generating a formatted document that (for example) only
applies to 3.2. Until we get that finalised I'm loathe to remove content
that's still accurate.
N
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