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Date:      Mon, 21 Jun 1999 08:07:54 +0200
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To:        Bill Fumerola <billf@jade.chc-chimes.com>
Cc:        John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: doc/en/handbook/ports chapter.sgml
Message-ID:  <19990621080754.B1274@daemon.ninth-circle.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990620201612.16570A-100000@jade.chc-chimes.com>; from Bill Fumerola on Sun, Jun 20, 1999 at 08:18:53PM -0400
References:  <199906210011.KAA07097@cimlogic.com.au> <Pine.BSF.3.96.990620201612.16570A-100000@jade.chc-chimes.com>

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* Bill Fumerola (billf@jade.chc-chimes.com) [990621 05:38]:
> On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, John Birrell wrote:
> 
> > > http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/sys/param.h
> 
> Okay, the above URL is the commit log for the file, not the latest value.
> I can see however that some sort of strcuture is needed.
> 
> > As a developer, I would never have thought to look in the ports section
> > of the handbook for this sort of information. IMHO, the ports section
> > is for use more often by people creating ports from other people's
> > code. We need to document things in a way that suits the "other
> > people" too.
> 
> Perhaps it does belong in another section, it does however still need to
> be in or be referenced to in the ports documentation.

I will most certainly mention/make a seperate page for this in the 
Programmers Documentation Project handbook.

Thanks for the info guys...

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