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Date:      Wed, 10 Nov 1999 15:01:39 -0800 (PST)
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@hub.freebsd.org>
To:        Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>
Cc:        doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Outdated version information
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911101453500.11485-100000@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <19991110080153.A90762@kilt.nothing-going-on.org>

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On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Nik Clayton wrote:

> <snip>
> 
> I'll be writing this up more fully later, but in a nutshell, the plan is to
> modify DocBook to add three new attributes to each element, osversionmin, 
> osversionmax, osversionequal.

This might be useful for other reasons, but it doesn't seem to address the
case of lots of instances of things like:

"The current version of FreeBSD is 3.2"

"the next release coming up with 3.3 in Q3 1999"

"For the current 3.0-stable release, 3.0-RELEASE, see the 3.0-RELEASE
directory"

"...as it continues on its way towards 3.2-RELEASE".

"somebody should check this before 3.0 goes out of beta or there'll be
a lot of red faces after the CDs ship."

just to note a few from a brief scan of the first few pages of the FAQ.

The point is that there needs to be some way of flagging these kinds of
changes for human revision, not just conditionally including text based on
current revision number.

Kris

----
Cthulhu for President! For when you're tired of choosing the _lesser_ of
two evils..



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