Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 08:31:47 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.dk.tfs.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Stephen McKay <syssgm@devetir.qld.gov.au>, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sys@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa/bs bs.c bs_isa.c bs_pisa.c bsfunc.c bsfunc.h bshw.c bshw.h bshw.lst bshw_dma.c bshw_pdma.c bsvar.h ccbque.h dvcfg.h scsi_dvcfg.h Message-ID: <4011.852535907@critter.dk.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 05 Jan 1997 22:00:43 PST." <12738.852530443@time.cdrom.com>
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In message <12738.852530443@time.cdrom.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes: >I want my sources to represent what's currently needed by myself and >the compiler to read and compile the code, nothing more. Change log >information, obscure version numbers, lengthy API documentation, there >are other places for that sort of information to go, places where I'd >much *prefer* it to be, and it doesn't bloody well need to go anywhere >near my code! :-) Actually I wish there were something more tangible than web/tangle to ease the documentation/source problem, but that aside... >At no stage during this 4 year project has the $Id$ information ever >been of any use to me, nor have I ever received an email which said >"hey, are you running that binary with version 1.4.6.9.1 or version >1.19.3.7 of foo.c?" Indeed. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Power and ignorance is a disgusting cocktail.
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