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Date:      Thu, 18 Nov 1999 08:19:17 +0000
From:      Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>
To:        Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
Cc:        Alexey Zelkin <phantom@cris.net>, Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>, doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: tutorials
Message-ID:  <19991118081917.D93488@kilt.nothing-going-on.org>
In-Reply-To: <19991117203140.C18826@daemon.ninth-circle.org>; from Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai on Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 08:31:40PM %2B0100
References:  <19991115173853.A6833@scorpion.crimea.ua> <19991115201733.B19819@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <19991116080341.A92155@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> <19991116204509.A99933@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <19991117204338.B17330@scorpion.crimea.ua> <19991117203140.C18826@daemon.ninth-circle.org>

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On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 08:31:40PM +0100, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote:
> >> So be my guest.  It wouldn't hinder me.  I think I am going to import
> >> the 2.x DDWG into my document as 2.x reference.  Anyone know how to do a
> >> repo-cpoy? =)
> >
> >Why do you need repo-copy ? You wanna save history of development ?
> 
> For myself.  That and I want to know how it is done.

Ah, I see.  So if you're new document was going to be 

    .../articles/writing-device-drivers/article.sgml

(for example) then you want the existing tutorials/ddwg/ddwg.sgml copied
in to place first.

OK, we could do it.  But if you're document is going to be a complete 
rewrite then with your first commit you will be deleting all the old lines
and adding in new ones.  This isn't particularly useful from a CVS 
historian point of view, because the diff will be huge.

Keep in mind that anyone that's in a position to see the history for your
new document should be in a position to see the history for the old document
as well.  You might want to include a URL to the CVSWeb interface for the
old document in yours.

> >As I can understand DDWG will be completely rewriten, therefore we 
> >can remove current tutorials/ddwg and import new ddwg (for FreeBSD 3.x/4.x)
> >then (and to new place).
> 
> As I said above.  Be my guest.  The new DDWG will be 2.x, 3.x and 4.x as
> still a lot of people seem to want to support 2.x and I hope to provide
> migrating tips.

That's good news.  Perhaps we could use this article to prototype the new
mechanism for including OS version specific information in the documentation?

> >I am going to remove doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/tutorials. Any objections ?
> 
> Not from my side.

Nope, go for it.

N
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