Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 14:34:01 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@unixhelp.org> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.org> Cc: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>, Bill Fumerola <billf@jade.chc-chimes.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en/handbook/ports chapter.sgml Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906211432480.47644-100000@janus.syracuse.net> In-Reply-To: <19990621122224.S63035@bitbox.follo.net>
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On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Eivind Eklund wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 20, 1999 at 08:03:45PM -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote:
> > On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, John Birrell wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > But __FreeBSD_version is mainly for the ports system anyway!
>
> Disagree. __FreeBSD_version is mainly so any developer that maintain
> something outside the FreeBSD tree can be able to make it work with
> most versions of FreeBSD. In a way, it is a testimony to our
> ineptness at creating and maintaining good APIs.
The ports system is the collection of programs for FreeBSD; how does that
not use __FreeBSD_version? Ports do that. And most of the time, with any
changes, it is not the API that changes but the ABI.
>
> Eivind.
>
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