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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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