From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 21 14:02:13 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7288C16A415; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 14:02:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from trhodes@FreeBSD.org) Received: from pittgoth.com (ns1.pittgoth.com [216.38.206.188]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C3DA43D6B; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 14:01:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from trhodes@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (ip70-177-190-239.dc.dc.cox.net [70.177.190.239]) (authenticated bits=0) by pittgoth.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id kALE2AJH052166 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Tue, 21 Nov 2006 09:02:11 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from trhodes@FreeBSD.org) Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 09:02:09 -0500 From: Tom Rhodes To: Joel Dahl 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> Organization: The FreeBSD Project X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.6 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: bmah@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: RFC: Release notes rearrangement X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 14:02:13 -0000 On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 08:01:37 +0100 Joel Dahl 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