From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 7 14:40:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBAB037B404 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 14:40:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (storm.FreeBSD.org.uk [194.242.157.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B8BC43E3B for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 14:40:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@grimreaper.grondar.org) Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (uucp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g97Le6W1074742 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 22:40:06 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark@grimreaper.grondar.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) with UUCP id g97Le6Ef074741 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 22:40:06 +0100 (BST) Received: from grimreaper.grondar.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grimreaper.grondar.org (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g97LcnuF000790 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 22:38:49 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark@grimreaper.grondar.org) Message-Id: <200210072138.g97LcnuF000790@grimreaper.grondar.org> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intended Audience References: <20021007230613.A737@snoopy.cablecom.ch> In-Reply-To: <20021007230613.A737@snoopy.cablecom.ch> ; from Hanspeter Roth "Mon, 07 Oct 2002 23:06:13 +0200." Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 22:38:49 +0100 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Oct 07 at 16:44, Mark Murray spoke: > > > > How did you know this? > > > > I read the makefiles. > > This sounds like several hours of work. 5 minutes, actually. > Thank you for letting me benefit of your time. Pleasure! > > No. CURRENT is not really documented that way. Developers are supposed > > to "Use the Source, Luke!" :-) > > So the intended audience for CURRENT are developers? Mostly, yes. > Or maybe also testers? Them as well. > What if somebody wants to know whether his hardware configuration is > supported (supposed it's not supported by Stable)? Try current by al means, but as the hadbook states, CURRENT is not for those seeking new features. It is a development-heavy, support- light codebase. M -- o Mark Murray \_ O.\_ Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message