Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 18:00:02 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org> Cc: Remko Lodder <remko@freebsd.org>, doc-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-doc@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11 chapter.sgml Message-ID: <20070630150002.GC2482@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <20070628053655.GA41771@abigail.blackend.org> References: <200706271739.l5RHd6sZ076571@repoman.freebsd.org> <20070627193513.GB34249@abigail.blackend.org> <4682BD48.2090805@FreeBSD.org> <20070627195117.GC34249@abigail.blackend.org> <4682C040.3080701@FreeBSD.org> <20070627200801.GD34249@abigail.blackend.org> <4682C4D9.8030404@FreeBSD.org> <20070628053655.GA41771@abigail.blackend.org>
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On 2007-06-28 07:36, Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org> wrote: >On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 10:13:13PM +0200, Remko Lodder wrote: >> >> Packages aren't always up to date as well; 7.2 was released and is >> supported by 5.5 and 6.2. Because the generic installation won't work >> we should document on the page that for 5.5 and 6.2 you need an up to >> date ports tree and install xorg 7.2. via that way). I think it would be >> unwise to tell that 6.3 and 7.0 (for that matter) are the first ones >> that support xorg 7.2 because that aint true (yes the default >> installation might include some version of 7.2 in those versions). > > I'm not talking about that. > >> Anyway; as said thanks for replying you DO have a point but I think >> that we then should add more documentation to warn people instead >> of changing the releases for it. > > Let's try to sum up in another way my thoughts: with the current change > (s/X11R6/local/ path) some instructions provided in the Handbook will > not work for people using something else than recent packages or ports. > These people exist we can't ignore them, so we have to tell them that > the path changed or is different for the previous versions of Xorg. We should probably add a note, but it is probably worth noting that the release CD-ROMs also contain a version of doc/ which was built at the time of the release. Only the online version is the one which contains a mismatch :)
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