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Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:17:18 -0400
From: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: docs.freebsd.org missing newer release docs
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On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:42:11 -0400
John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Thursday 24 April 2008 06:58:29 pm Tom Rhodes wrote:
> > On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:11:50 -0400
> >
> > John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 23 April 2008 06:58:45 pm Tom Rhodes wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:15:11 -0400
> > > >
> > > > John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > > > > FYI, http://docs.freebsd.org/doc doesn't have the documentation for
> > > > > the 6.3 and 7.0 releases.
> > > >
> > > > IIRC, this was discontinued in favor of www.FreeBSD.org/docs.html
> > > > but I could be wrong.  It does store some old files though.
> > >
> > > The handbook links to it in the first page, so if it is deprecated the
> > > link should be removed.
> >
> > This text:
> >
> >         (previous versions of this handbook can be obtained from <ulink
> >         url="http://docs.FreeBSD.org/doc/"></ulink>).
> >
> > from book.sgml makes me think that's where we could go for "older"
> > versions of the handbook.  The Handbook itself should cover
> > the latest releases.  If there is some ambiguity, then it should
> > be fixed.  ;)
> 
> If that were the case surely 6.2 would be recent enough to be covered, yet 6.2 
> is on the docs machine. :)  It seems that the docs from each release are 
> saved on that machine and that someone(tm) just hasn't done it for 6.3 and 
> 7.0 yet.  I've no idea who "someone" is though.

Haha, so true.  Where is Simon when you need him.  Or perhaps we
this someone waits for an official release, and copies the old
version then.  :)

Gotta love it.  :)

-- 
Tom Rhodes