From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Feb 10 20:43:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA15384 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 20:43:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA15351 for ; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 20:43:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id UAA21516; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 20:42:52 -0800 (PST) To: ac199@hwcn.org cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ports docs.. In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 10 Feb 1998 21:57:59 EST." Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 20:42:52 -0800 Message-ID: <21513.887172172@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org OK, well, I think the real win of their doc is that it's scaled more to the beginner than the rocket scientist. We go into LOTS of detail but don't really give a good overview, whereas the NetBSD docs do that quite well. Jordan > On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/netbsd/Packages.txt > > > > This is much better than some of ours. :-) > > But ours is the reference copy... :-) > > Seriously, I'm hoping to go through much of the documentation for > our ports system (the stuff related to your above URL is last on > my list), and I think the only advantage the above has on ours is > that it's coherent... Ours just needs restyling. :) > > > -- > tIM...HOEk > OPTIMIZATION: the process of using many one-letter variables names > hoping that the resultant code will run faster. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message