Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 11:33:20 PST From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> To: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> Cc: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>, pst@FreeBSD.ORG, mpp@FreeBSD.ORG, bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fx and Os macros (was: Re: [yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp: .Fx and .Os macros in groff, FreeBSD]) Message-ID: <99Feb10.113323pst.177534@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 06 Feb 99 21:35:14 PST." <199902070535.OAA02106@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
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After testing my macros some more, I'm sure they work. The only reason to not commit them is because we think it's better to print an empty string for unknown releases (like 2.2.2 was, before you fixed it, and of course 3.1 and 4.0). I think it's a much better failure mode to allow .Fx 1.2.3.4 to print "FreeBSD 1.2.3.4" than it is to allow ".Fx 4.0" to print "". I also made similar changes to the .Nx and .Ox macros, so that we don't have to track them as closely. The .Nx macro still needs to be updated whenever NetBSD creates an "if" in their macro that changes its argument (e.g. .Nx 0.8a -> NetBSD 0.8A), but ones that don't (e.g. .Nx 1.4) will Just Work. Unless someone Screams Loudly, I'm going to commit this (but leave the RELENG_3 merge until after the 3.1 release). Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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