Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 16:46:47 +0100 From: Benedict Reuschling <bcr@FreeBSD.org> To: Rene Ladan <rene@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "doc@FreeBSD.org" <doc@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: patch to remove FreeBSD < 7 from the Handbook Message-ID: <4CE93EE7.5050504@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4CE6A8F3.5010807@freebsd.org> References: <4CE6A8F3.5010807@freebsd.org>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am 19.11.10 17:42, schrieb Rene Ladan: > Hi list, > > Because FreeBSD 6.X will be officially unsupported after this month, I > made a patch [1] to streamline the Handbook so that it only supports > FreeBSD 7.X and up (assuming I did not miss anything). > > Some more notes: > - old versions in historical context are left in tact. > - the section about KerberosIV has been removed, since it is applicable > to FreeBSD < 6 only > - the instructions to install SAP R/3 have been commented out for now, > since they were last tested on FreeBSD 4.3 and 4.5. Maybe these and the > other instructions about installing Linux applications should be > converted to articles? > - XFree86 has been removed from the text (except when in historical > context), only X.Org is supported these days. > - Some port paths have been updated (e.g. mail/pine -> mail/alpine) > - definitions for ctm-src-[5-8] have been added to mailing-lists.ent to > fully support updating FreeBSD version numbers in examples. > > I put some comments for others to look at (screenshots for alpine and > updated instructions for MAC come to mind). And no, I will not commit > this before having received some feedback. > > [1] http://people.freebsd.org/~rene/patches/handbook.diff > SIZE = 115079 > SHA256 = 1efcd3dc978c9d969c7aff9576fb63a374208e108d906af3895d7c7f5d2a1ffd > > Cheers, > Rene Thanks for all the work you did, Rene! I agree with you about Kerberos and SAP being too old to be relevant for the recent releases. Although I managed to get the SAPGUI working a while ago [1], they recently removed the Java version from their FTP server, so that is no longer an option. But that is a different story... The only comment I have about your patch is that you added some SGML-comments in various places (starting with "rene"). If you want, you can add some of them to the handbook section of the DocIdeaList [2] for someone to work on them. That way, you can remove the comments from your patch before committing it, but keep the comments as a sort of todo-list in the wiki. [1] http://people.freebsd.org/~bcr/FreeBSD-SAP.png [2] http://wiki.freebsd.org/DocIdeaList Regards Benedict Reuschling -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkzpPtQACgkQTSZQLkqBk0iL5wCdF5QxZIULsA9HjrYCaMAYHRUB wBkAnjfyOdpJSve6Q6+KiomobOb8szTG =gkdj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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