Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:55:14 -0800 From: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Ceri Davies <ceri@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FAQ confusion Message-ID: <200301231955.h0NJtEfO031355@intruder.bmah.org> In-Reply-To: <20030123175022.GA11524@submonkey.net> References: <xzp4r80hu2o.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20030123175022.GA11524@submonkey.net>
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--==_Exmh_-487916606P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, Ceri Davies wrote: > No; freebsd.ent has been updated, but it looks like it needs additional > entities. > > Off the top of my head, I think we'll want something like os.4x.rel, > os.4x.rel.date, etc. and corresponding os.5x entities. In fact it's a shame > that os.current is even called that, since we've been using it for -STABLE > releases all this time... I always thought that "current" means the "the current release", not "CURRENT". (At least that's the semantics of the corresponding entity in the release documentation, which defines release.prev, release.current, and release.next for its own use.) I don't like the idea of tying entities to specific major releases. That's going to force a huge search'n'replace effort at some point in the not-too-distant future. For the Web site, I (somewhat clumsily) attempted to define the concept of multiple releases that could be considered "current". At the time, it was critical that we be able to do this without changing the files that didn't need to express this concept. The result can be seen in revision 1.12 of www/en/includes.xsl and revision 1.55 of www/en/includes.sgml. This is a gross hack, but it kind of fit at the time. You might want to consider something similar (but cleaner). Bruce. --==_Exmh_-487916606P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5+ 20020506 iD8DBQE+MEii2MoxcVugUsMRAsNjAKCCTf3yHo29UvC3FtoZdqnh7h443wCg6r52 zVaNAPL8UUX9Q1XxpzhLD1M= =9Kte -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_-487916606P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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