Re: Intended Audience

2002-10-07 Thread Mark Murray

>   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.

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Re: Intended Audience

2002-10-07 Thread Juli Mallett

* De: Hanspeter Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Data: 2002-10-07 ]
[ Subjecte: Intended Audience ]
> > No. CURRENT is not really documented that way. Developers are supposed
> > to "Use the Source, Luke!" :-)
> 
> So the intended audience for CURRENT are developers?
> Or maybe also testers?
> What if somebody wants to know whether his hardware configuration is
> supported (supposed it's not supported by Stable)?

CURRENT is explicitly for developers, etc.  Please read the page on the
FreeBSD website.
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Re: Intended Audience

2002-10-07 Thread Kris Kennaway

On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 11:06:13PM +0200, Hanspeter Roth wrote:

> > No. CURRENT is not really documented that way. Developers are supposed
> > to "Use the Source, Luke!" :-)
> 
> So the intended audience for CURRENT are developers?
> Or maybe also testers?

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html

Kris



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Intended Audience

2002-10-07 Thread Hanspeter Roth

  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.
Thank you for letting me benefit of your time.

> No. CURRENT is not really documented that way. Developers are supposed
> to "Use the Source, Luke!" :-)

So the intended audience for CURRENT are developers?
Or maybe also testers?
What if somebody wants to know whether his hardware configuration is
supported (supposed it's not supported by Stable)?

-Hanspeter

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