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Date:      Wed, 1 Aug 2007 19:07:27 -0400
From:      Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        doc@FreeBSD.org, cvs-doc@FreeBSD.org, peterjeremy@optushome.com.au, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, doc-committers@FreeBSD.org, blackend@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install chapter.sgml
Message-ID:  <20070801190727.0957a8d3.trhodes@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070801082950.GA1928@kobe.laptop>
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On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 11:29:50 +0300
Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 2007-08-01 05:20, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> wrote:
> >On 2007-Jul-31 21:01:20 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >> It may be sensible to phase out the alpha-specific parts now, or at
> >> least make it easy to skip them (since we don't really support alpha
> >> in the latest releases).
> >
> > Alpha is still supported in 6.x.  Since 7.x isn't even out yet,
> > deleting the Alpha-specific parts is probably premature.  It might
> > be worthwhile adding "not supported beyond 6.x" notes.
> 
> True; you're right that deleting the alpha-specific parts is premature
> right now.  A markup/note would be nice though :-)
> 
> On 2007-08-01 08:58, Remko Lodder <remko@elvandar.org> wrote:
> > Hence the "make it easy to skip them" part :-) that will make deletion
> > much easier later on.
> 
> Yep. That's the spirit :-)
> 

I'd like to see us avoid putting notes all over the handbook
in the original spirit of "in this version of, since version X,
beyond XXX" etc.

-- 
Tom Rhodes



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