Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 06:32:35 -0800 From: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Udo Erdelhoff <ue@nathan.ruhr.de> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding a publication date to the installation instructions Message-ID: <200301221432.h0MEWZC7013773@intruder.bmah.org> In-Reply-To: <20030121191802.GE173@nathan.ruhr.de> References: <20030120205441.GC173@nathan.ruhr.de> <200301211651.h0LGp9nS001708@intruder.bmah.org> <20030121191802.GE173@nathan.ruhr.de>
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--==_Exmh_-926300294P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, Udo Erdelhoff wrote: > Bruce, > On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 08:51:09AM -0800, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > > The problem with the installation instructions is that the content is > > scattered throughout several files and there is not any single > > $FreeBSD$ tag you (or anybody) can use to give the latest revision date > > for the document as a whole. > > I hate it when you are right and have to ditch one of my half-cooked ideas > into the trashcan. Obviously, adding a visible $FreeBSD$ tag to each > file would look... strange. I'm only right because I've run into this problem too. Also I *designed* this mess. :-) > > I *think* you can do this for the installation guide as well, and I > > wouldn't object to somebody doing this if it can be made to work. > > Why do I get the nasty feeling that this will be more complicated > than just doing a gigantic cat * > newfile.sgml? I haven't really looked at this (ENOTIME) but it might actually *be* that easy. > > It can't be done for the hardware notes, because there are some MD > > files. > > Which mean that even if I manage to add a usefull publication date to > the installation instructions, I am still short of my target of having > a way to automatically identify the parts of the rendered release notes > that are out of date... short of building them and running diff, that > is. But you'd be closer. A lot of these problems (believe it or not) would go away if we had better conditionals for building text. Heck, cpp(1) would do better than what I'm using now. :-( Bruce. --==_Exmh_-926300294P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5+ 20020506 iD8DBQE+LquD2MoxcVugUsMRAk9WAKCkeWM7FbEsr/Jext8n0oL8vdBuZACdGldt RSiOu0GkwpkfRwUg8wXdM3U= =P/ui -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_-926300294P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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