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Date:      Wed, 25 Apr 2001 17:45:44 -0700
From:      Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
To:        bmah@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>, doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: rel.current entity for www/en a la Handbook 
Message-ID:  <20010426004544.EAD9F3E2A@bazooka.unixfreak.org>
In-Reply-To: <200104251815.f3PIFKx56080@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com>; from bmah@FreeBSD.ORG on "Wed, 25 Apr 2001 11:15:20 -0700"

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"Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG> writes:
> If memory serves me right, Nik Clayton wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 01:03:56AM -0700, Dima Dorfman wrote:
> > > In order to simplify trasitioning from one release to another, I think
> > > the web site could use an entity similar to &rel.current; that the
> > > Handbook uses.  From looking at includes.sgml it looks like something
> > > like this has been attempted (see a.latest.ann and a.latest.not
> > > entities), but died off (the aforementioned entities still point to
> > > 3.4!).
> 
> Just for kicks, here's what RELNOTESng uses (see attachment), modulo 
> things like a $FreeBSD$ tag and some whitespace fixes.
> 
> > I think we should standardise these across the doc/ and www/ trees.
> 
> That sounds pretty reasonable.
> 
> One thought I have is that RELNOTESng, which will live in src/, may need
> to be kept separate because it's branched (in the CVS sense) and doc/
> and www/ are not.  So I'd like to either use differently-named entities
> or else have the ability to avoid including the file that defines the
> release-related entities but still include some others (such as the
> committers, manpages, etc.).

How are you including the committers and manpages entities right now?
Ideally, we would have something.ent which both relnotes and doc/
stuff would include; it'd contain things like rel.current, os, etc.
This is a problem, however, because doc/ may not be accessable when
relnotes are compiled.  If the latter isn't true (i.e., the existence
of doc/ is guaranteed), then having a generic entities file for this
stuff would be nice.

					Dima Dorfman
					dima@unixfreak.org

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