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Date:      Mon, 06 Jan 1997 08:31:47 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.dk.tfs.com>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        Stephen McKay <syssgm@devetir.qld.gov.au>, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sys@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa/bs bs.c bs_isa.c bs_pisa.c bsfunc.c bsfunc.h bshw.c bshw.h bshw.lst bshw_dma.c bshw_pdma.c bsvar.h ccbque.h dvcfg.h scsi_dvcfg.h 
Message-ID:  <4011.852535907@critter.dk.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 05 Jan 1997 22:00:43 PST." <12738.852530443@time.cdrom.com> 

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In message <12738.852530443@time.cdrom.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes:

>I want my sources to represent what's currently needed by myself and
>the compiler to read and compile the code, nothing more.  Change log
>information, obscure version numbers, lengthy API documentation, there
>are other places for that sort of information to go, places where I'd
>much *prefer* it to be, and it doesn't bloody well need to go anywhere
>near my code! :-)

Actually I wish there were something more tangible than web/tangle
to ease the documentation/source problem, but that aside...

>At no stage during this 4 year project has the $Id$ information ever
>been of any use to me, nor have I ever received an email which said
>"hey, are you running that binary with version 1.4.6.9.1 or version
>1.19.3.7 of foo.c?" 

Indeed.

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http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk    Private mailbox.
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Power and ignorance is a disgusting cocktail.



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