Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 20:36:47 -0700 From: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG (Bruce A. Mah) To: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> Cc: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG, Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rel.current entity for www/en a la Handbook Message-ID: <200104260336.f3Q3al231164@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> In-Reply-To: <20010426004544.EAD9F3E2A@bazooka.unixfreak.org> References: <20010426004544.EAD9F3E2A@bazooka.unixfreak.org>
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--==_Exmh_1717732030P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, Dima Dorfman wrote: > How are you including the committers and manpages entities right now? > Ideally, we would have something.ent which both relnotes and doc/ > stuff would include; it'd contain things like rel.current, os, etc. > This is a problem, however, because doc/ may not be accessable when > relnotes are compiled. If the latter isn't true (i.e., the existence > of doc/ is guaranteed), then having a generic entities file for this > stuff would be nice. I need doc/ to build RENOTESng anyways, so availability is not a problem (as you deduced, I am getting the committer and manpage entries from there). Let me try expressing the problem again.... At this point in time, there is only one FAQ, one Handbook, and so on. So these documents have only a single notion of what &rel.current; should be (right now, it's 4.3-RELEASE). But in src/, on the other hand (where the release notes live), there's several states (bad term, sorry) that can be considered to be an "up-to-date" version of FreeBSD. One of them is 5.0-CURRENT-as-it-exists -right-now, another is 4.3-STABLE-as-it-exists-right-now, a third is 3.5.1-STABLE-as-it-exists-right-now, and so on. Ok. If I were to build release notes for 5.0-CURRENT (i.e. the HEAD CVS branch), I need &rel.current; to say "5.0-CURRENT". If I'm doing so for 4.3-STABLE (i.e. the RELENG_4 branch), I need &rel.current; to say (obviously) "4.3-STABLE". Either of these is a semantically valid "current release" at the current instant in time. But www/en/ includes.sgml can only take on one of these values. How's that? Bruce. --==_Exmh_1717732030P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 iD8DBQE655fP2MoxcVugUsMRAo9lAKCvpW8mdhSIwvmmxDgmBKJOVctzYQCeKt/3 m0JkyrOpLuiO4QmejKR0y60= =8fFm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1717732030P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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