Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2015 14:00:28 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Conrad Meyer <cem@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>, doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r47757 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/versions Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1511071345210.66783@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <CAG6CVpWrAk8qO_6Uj3nWx6WzJT=dHAGmgcvP7ALsZdLa_NKqxA@mail.gmail.com> References: <201511071838.tA7IcMGH038876@repo.freebsd.org> <alpine.GSO.1.10.1511071339370.26829@multics.mit.edu> <CAG6CVpWrAk8qO_6Uj3nWx6WzJT=dHAGmgcvP7ALsZdLa_NKqxA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, 7 Nov 2015, Conrad Meyer wrote: > On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu> wrote: >> It's worth keeping a placeholder entry around for 1100087 (maybe >> "incomplete API change to sysctl_add_oid(9); see version 1100089") so that >> people don't wonder why there's a gap. > > On the other hand, there are already big gaps between 1100081 and > 1100085, and 1100086 was never documented. Given the relatively short > period of time (<1 day) between 1100087 and 1100089 and that this is > on CURRENT, not a STABLE branch, I'm incline to leave it alone. Of > course if you're really insistent about keeping the 1100087 entry, I > can re-add it. (Or if you want to, go ahead. :-)) These are really a list of version numbers that are useful for checking specific FreeBSD features. Since 87 was incomplete and presumably should not be used in any version-checking code, leaving it out is probably preferable to having people use it because it was the first thing they found.
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