From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 26 10: 6:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1BC41558D for ; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 10:06:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA09562; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 10:04:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) To: Jon Hamilton Cc: Daniel Lang , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make release - a nightmare In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 26 Mar 1999 08:46:46 CST." <19990326144646.8299E14D@woodstock.monkey.net> Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 10:04:25 -0800 Message-ID: <9560.922471465@zippy.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > The sentiment seems to be that ``make release is meant for experts > only'', which I don't think is entirely appropriate, although I do > understand that it's a hairy process and Jordan and others are very > busy and cleaning it up and/or writing better documentation is just It's not so much the case that it's deliberately for experts only so much as the fact that it's never been polished to the point where non-experts can trivially use it. Given the long TODO lists that all of us have, it's also not part of anyone's immediate plans to make it so. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message