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Date:      Tue, 20 Dec 2005 16:33:32 +0100
From:      Dirk GOUDERS <gouders@et.bocholt.fh-ge.de>
To:        Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net>
Cc:        Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: My wish list for 6.1 
Message-ID:  <200512201533.jBKFXW8v070613@musashi.et.bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de>
In-Reply-To: Message from Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> of "Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:22:54 GMT." <20051220142254.GD68989@submonkey.net> 

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> This is exactly the idea that I have been pimping to anyone who will
> listen for the last three months or so.  I also think that it is
> advantageous for users who are using, say 4.2, to be able to find
> documentation for 4.2 without having to interpret a nest of "if you have
> 4.x do this, if 5.0 through 5.3 do that, else do the other".  I don't
> think it's a lot of work to just branch the handbook (and FAQ
> if we decide to keep it) - in fact, for me, it would be a definite win -
> at release time, but it just doesn't seem to be what other people want
> done.

I would like to add that I could imagine that it would be easier for
authors to just change/add some documentation that matches the target
release and not to have to think about "if version=something else ..."
constructs. 

Also, sometimes it is good to be able to just throw away things that
are out-of-date.

> I would encourage those interested to ask about it on doc@.

Well, I would be surprised if that hasn't already been discussed.
Have to search the archives...

Dirk



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