On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 03:46:53PM +0100, Joel Dahl wrote: > On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 14:22 +0000, Ceri Davies wrote:
> > This is exactly the idea that I have been pimping to anyone who will > > listen for the last three months or so. I also think that it is > > advantageous for users who are using, say 4.2, to be able to find > > documentation for 4.2 without having to interpret a nest of "if you have > > 4.x do this, if 5.0 through 5.3 do that, else do the other". I don't > > think it's a lot of work to just branch the handbook (and FAQ > > if we decide to keep it) - in fact, for me, it would be a definite win - > > at release time, but it just doesn't seem to be what other people want > > done. > > Yep, I really like this. The current mess is impossible to maintain > (and also impossible to read). Yesterday I tried to update the kernel > configuration chapter to cover 6.0, but I gave up since there are "do > this for 4.X, do that for 5.X, and maybe this too for 6.X" everywhere. Yes, that's my major concern. I find working on the current documents too difficult. Ceri -- Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -- Einstein (attrib.)
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