From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Jan 22 9:29: 3 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9C8937B401 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 09:29:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.ruhr.de (in-ruhr4.ruhr.de [212.23.134.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DE8BC43E4A for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 09:28:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ue@nathan.ruhr.de) Received: (qmail 13137 invoked by uid 10); 22 Jan 2003 17:28:45 -0000 Received: from nathan.internal (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nathan.internal (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0MHQl0B036528 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 18:26:47 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ue@nathan.internal) Received: (from ue@localhost) by nathan.internal (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0MHQl02036527 for freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 18:26:47 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 18:26:47 +0100 From: Udo Erdelhoff To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding a publication date to the installation instructions Message-ID: <20030122172647.GG173@nathan.ruhr.de> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20030120205441.GC173@nathan.ruhr.de> <200301211651.h0LGp9nS001708@intruder.bmah.org> <20030121191802.GE173@nathan.ruhr.de> <200301221432.h0MEWZC7013773@intruder.bmah.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200301221432.h0MEWZC7013773@intruder.bmah.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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