From owner-cvs-sys Sun Jan 5 23:29:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id XAA16247 for cvs-sys-outgoing; Sun, 5 Jan 1997 23:29:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from tfs.com (tfs.com [140.145.250.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id XAA16210; Sun, 5 Jan 1997 23:29:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from schizo.dk.tfs.com by tfs.com (smail3.1.28.1) with SMTP id m0vh9Tn-0003xgC; Sun, 5 Jan 97 23:28 PST Received: from critter.dk.tfs.com (critter-home [193.162.32.19]) by schizo.dk.tfs.com (8.8.2/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA00407; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 08:28:14 +0100 (MET) Received: from critter.dk.tfs.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.dk.tfs.com (8.8.2/8.8.2) with ESMTP id IAA04013; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 08:31:47 +0100 (MET) To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Stephen McKay , 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 In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 05 Jan 1997 22:00:43 PST." <12738.852530443@time.cdrom.com> Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 08:31:47 +0100 Message-ID: <4011.852535907@critter.dk.tfs.com> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-cvs-sys@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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.