From owner-cvs-all Mon Jun 21 11:34:11 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from janus.syracuse.net (janus.syracuse.net [205.232.47.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE9991516B; Mon, 21 Jun 1999 11:34:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@unixhelp.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by janus.syracuse.net (8.9.2/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA47702; Mon, 21 Jun 1999 14:34:01 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 14:34:01 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" X-Sender: green@janus.syracuse.net To: Eivind Eklund Cc: John Birrell , Bill Fumerola , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en/handbook/ports chapter.sgml In-Reply-To: <19990621122224.S63035@bitbox.follo.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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. > Brian Fundakowski Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ green@FreeBSD.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | http://www.FreeBSD.org/ _ |___/___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message