Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 17:44:57 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Nik Clayton <nclayton@lehman.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: please... Message-ID: <22198.931275897@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 06 Jul 1999 16:38:01 BST." <19990706163801.I15628@lehman.com>
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It should probably be it's own section in the index, under the general title of "House rules for developers" In message <19990706163801.I15628@lehman.com>, Nik Clayton writes: >On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 02:46:21PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> I've noticed that this bit of -core policy never made it into >> section 20 of the handbook, could one of you guys SGMLify it >> and add it please ? > >I'm getting around to this now. Where (exactly) do you want it? > >Should it be a subsection of the "Contributed software" section, or do >you want it as a section in it's own right. > >This is the difference between > > 20. Source Tree Guidelines and Policies > > MAINTAINER on Makefiles > Contributed Software > Shared Libraries > >(i.e., it doesn't appear in the index, because it's a sub-section) and > > 20. Source Tree Guidelines and Policies > > MAINTAINER on Makefiles > Contributed Software > Encumbered Files > Shared Libraries > >(i.e., it appears at the same level as the other three). > >Also, you wrote: > >> Policy on encumbered files in the source tree >> >> -- PUBLIC SECTION -------------------------------------------------- >> >> 1. Any file which is interpreted or executed by the system CPU(s) >> and not in source format is encumbered. > ><snip> > >> -- (CORE) PRIVATE SECTION ------------------------------------------ >> >> 5. Encumbered files go in src/contrib or src/sys/contrib > ><snip> > >What's with the "PRIVATE SECTION"? Was this a mistake, or do you want >the whole lot added? > >N >-- >--+==[ Systems Administrator, Year 2000 Test Lab, Lehman Brothers, Inc. ]==+-- >--+==[ 1 Broadgate, London, EC2M 7HA 0171-601-0011 x5514 ]==+-- >--+==[ Year 2000 Testing: It's about time. . . ]==+-- > -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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