Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 09:02:09 -0500 From: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> To: Joel Dahl <joel@FreeBSD.org> Cc: bmah@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: RFC: Release notes rearrangement Message-ID: <20061121090209.7227f41f.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <1164092497.663.4.camel@localhost> References: <20061121040153.GA17933@tomcat.kitchenlab.org> <1164092497.663.4.camel@localhost>
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On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 08:01:37 +0100 Joel Dahl <joel@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 20:01 -0800, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > > Executive summary: Some parts of the release documentation > > (specifically release notes, hardware list, and installation guide) > > have machine-dependent (MD) versions for each architecture. The > > current scheme was developed by me when we supported two > > architectures, but this doesn't scale very well to the half-dozen or > > so we now support. I want to rearrange the release documentation so > > that there exists only one machine-independent (MI) version for all > > documents. This would apply only to HEAD, no effect on RELENG_[456]. > > Yes please. This is actually something that I've been wanting to do for > a long time, so I'd like to strongly encourage you to continue with your > plans. No objections from me. > Of course, you could also do something like "if MACHINE_ARCH ..." to build only for a specific architecture. But perhaps that owns up to having duplication? I'm in favor of the idea, but just presenting another way to handle it. :) -- Tom Rhodes
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