From owner-freebsd-doc Thu May 31 22:36:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from bazooka.unixfreak.org (bazooka.unixfreak.org [63.198.170.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 313F037B424 for ; Thu, 31 May 2001 22:36:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dima@unixfreak.org) Received: from hornet.unixfreak.org (hornet [63.198.170.140]) by bazooka.unixfreak.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89E953E2F; Thu, 31 May 2001 22:36:09 -0700 (PDT) To: Dominic Marks Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ¤t;/&stable; entities for consistent naming In-Reply-To: <20010531094035.A405@host213-123-133-158.btopenworld>; from dominic_marks@btinternet.com on "Thu, 31 May 2001 09:40:35 +0100" Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 22:36:09 -0700 From: Dima Dorfman Message-Id: <20010601053609.89E953E2F@bazooka.unixfreak.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dominic Marks writes: > Hi > > On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 10:23:52PM -0700, Dima Dorfman wrote: > > > > It's probably of no technical concern, but I like > > &os.(current|stable);, so I think we should use that. > > > > Anybody else have any comments on this or shall I go ahead? > > Why not go the whole way and put in &os.release; It seems silly to leave > it out of the series even though its a snapshot of stable many FreeBSD > learners might not know that. Just a thought. -RELEASE isn't mentioned that much in the docs, and when it is it's mentioned with a number. When the docs refer to "stable" they usually mean "pretty much anything on the -stable branch". Very little docs refer to "pretty much any release"; it's almost always a specific release. Thus, unless we want to make entities for every release (which is counter-intuitive, since they won't get that much use) it's rather pointless. Dima Dorfman dima@unixfreak.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message