Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 17:23:32 -0600 From: "Tracy E. Phillips" <tphilips@cedar.netten.net> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Date and release version of FreeBSD Handbook Message-ID: <330A39F4.46C3@cedar.netten.net> References: <25882.855890619@time.cdrom.com>
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Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > For some time, we've proclaimed in the first paragraph of the Handbook > that it was last revised in December 1996 and contained instructions > for 2.1.6. Now that it's February, soon to be March, and 2.1.6 is > history about to be replaced by 2.1.7, I'd like to humbly suggest that > we simply *remove* this version information and call the Handbook what > it always has been - a fairly generic document for no release in > particular, except for certain very specific instances (which should > simply be noted in each case). > > That would be one less thing to forget each time and we could stop > declaring that the Handbook was less often updated than it really is. > > Comments? > > Jordan hi all, i think Jordan has a good idea here. although i do feel that we need to put a version number in the .tgz files on the ftp servers in the doc directory. then if people want to have the most current version they can compare that version number with the one they have. Thanks Tracy
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