From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Sep 7 14:49:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from chalfont.mail.uk.easynet.net (chalfont.mail.uk.easynet.net [195.40.1.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F56F37B422; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 14:49:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cream.org (boothman.easynet.co.uk [194.154.100.117]) by chalfont.mail.uk.easynet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E434FF82D5; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 22:49:30 +0100 (BST) Content-Length: 850 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20000907180727.A255@parish> Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 22:49:32 +0100 (BST) From: Andrew Boothman To: Mark Ovens Subject: Re: Ports Documentation Index - the next installment Cc: Andrew Boothman , doc@freebsd.org, Nik Clayton Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 07-Sep-00 Mark Ovens wrote: >> as and when porters start writing +DOCS files >> themselves that should be less of a problem. >> > > should that not be "*if* and when"? ISTR that when Andrew first wrote > this we got a rather cool response from the porters Indeed. Opinion seemed to be that there was already too much work involved in making a port, and that porters wouldn't take to kindly to having yet another step added. Having said that, the docsmaker script can give them a head start and with extra persuasion the idea could still be a go-er. We may need to do some of the grunt work though, as some porters may still not bother. The response from porters was the main reason for me dropping the idea originally, that combined with 'real world' things like exams and work. --- Andrew Boothman http://sour.cream.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message