Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 10:35:02 -0600 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: "Michael W . Lucas" <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Axing the FAQ's 2.2.X support? Message-ID: <3E808536.8040602@centtech.com> References: <20030325101720.A75278@blackhelicopters.org> <3E807936.3090800@centtech.com> <20030325104828.A75511@blackhelicopters.org>
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Michael W . Lucas wrote: > On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 09:43:50AM -0600, Eric Anderson wrote: > >>Michael W . Lucas wrote: >> >>>Guys, >>> >>>When 4.0 came out, we axed FreeBSD 2.1 from the FAQ. >>> >>>5.0 is out. I suggest that we do the same for FreeBSD 2.2. I don't >>>believe any new user is using 2.2 out there, and we no longer even >>>pretend to support it. >>> >>>For context, 3.0 was released almost five years ago... >>> >>>Comments? >> >>Good point.. I say get your axe out. I'm almost tempted to say whack >>3.X stuff too.. > > > Tempting, yes. And it would make life easier. But I suspect we still > have a number of 3.x users out there, poor bastards. > > At once point there was discussion of having an all-signing, > all-dancing, all-knowing FAQ build system that would allow us to build > version-specific FAQs. This would be ideal. While nothing has ever > happened with that, if someone feels ambitious this is the time to > take it on. :-) It would probably be best to have a "general" FAQ with non-version specific stuff, and then the separate FAQs for the different versions. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Attitudes are contagious, is yours worth catching? ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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