Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 18:26:47 +0100 From: Udo Erdelhoff <ue@nathan.ruhr.de> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding a publication date to the installation instructions Message-ID: <20030122172647.GG173@nathan.ruhr.de> In-Reply-To: <200301221432.h0MEWZC7013773@intruder.bmah.org> References: <20030120205441.GC173@nathan.ruhr.de> <200301211651.h0LGp9nS001708@intruder.bmah.org> <20030121191802.GE173@nathan.ruhr.de> <200301221432.h0MEWZC7013773@intruder.bmah.org>
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Hi, On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 06:32:35AM -0800, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > 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. :-) And you've done a wonderfull job of it ;) > > > 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. EWORK here, but my initial point of fear has proven to be harmless: we do not generate a layout.txt anymore. > 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. :-( Don't. Tempt. Me. /s/Udo -- Mit etwas weniger Microsoft ging das alles gleich viel besser To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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