From owner-cvs-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 30 15:12:46 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: cvs-doc@freebsd.org Delivered-To: cvs-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3B1016A469; Sat, 30 Jun 2007 15:12:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 462A513C45A; Sat, 30 Jun 2007 15:12:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from kobe.laptop (dialup116.ach.sch.gr [81.186.70.116]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id l5UF09QU008303 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sat, 30 Jun 2007 18:00:19 +0300 Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l5UF02td002747; Sat, 30 Jun 2007 18:00:03 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id l5UF02cQ002746; Sat, 30 Jun 2007 18:00:02 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 18:00:02 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Marc Fonvieille Message-ID: <20070630150002.GC2482@kobe.laptop> References: <200706271739.l5RHd6sZ076571@repoman.freebsd.org> <20070627193513.GB34249@abigail.blackend.org> <4682BD48.2090805@FreeBSD.org> <20070627195117.GC34249@abigail.blackend.org> <4682C040.3080701@FreeBSD.org> <20070627200801.GD34249@abigail.blackend.org> <4682C4D9.8030404@FreeBSD.org> <20070628053655.GA41771@abigail.blackend.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070628053655.GA41771@abigail.blackend.org> X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-3.766, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.63, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr X-Spam-Status: No Cc: Remko Lodder , doc-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-doc@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11 chapter.sgml X-BeenThere: cvs-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the doc and www trees List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 15:12:46 -0000 On 2007-06-28 07:36, Marc Fonvieille wrote: >On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 10:13:13PM +0200, Remko Lodder wrote: >> >> Packages aren't always up to date as well; 7.2 was released and is >> supported by 5.5 and 6.2. Because the generic installation won't work >> we should document on the page that for 5.5 and 6.2 you need an up to >> date ports tree and install xorg 7.2. via that way). I think it would be >> unwise to tell that 6.3 and 7.0 (for that matter) are the first ones >> that support xorg 7.2 because that aint true (yes the default >> installation might include some version of 7.2 in those versions). > > I'm not talking about that. > >> Anyway; as said thanks for replying you DO have a point but I think >> that we then should add more documentation to warn people instead >> of changing the releases for it. > > Let's try to sum up in another way my thoughts: with the current change > (s/X11R6/local/ path) some instructions provided in the Handbook will > not work for people using something else than recent packages or ports. > These people exist we can't ignore them, so we have to tell them that > the path changed or is different for the previous versions of Xorg. We should probably add a note, but it is probably worth noting that the release CD-ROMs also contain a version of doc/ which was built at the time of the release. Only the online version is the one which contains a mismatch :)