Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 axe.4 mac_portacl.4 my.4rndtest.4 rue.4 sbsh.4 src/share/man/man4/man4.i386 pae.4 sbni.4 vpd.4

From: Simon L. Nielsen (simon_at_nitro.dk)
Date: 05/30/03

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    Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 14:28:29 +0200
To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@tcoip.com.br>

    On 2003.05.30 09:21:52 -0300, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
    > Wilko Bulte wrote:
    > >On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 12:31:05AM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:

    > >>Now this is real funny: the sbsh(4) manpage says the driver
    > >>first appeared in FreeBSD 4.9, but 5.1 will be released
    > >>before 4.9. Something wrong with our release model? ;)
    > >
    > >Virtualised time?
    >
    > Actually, that attribution is plain wrong.
    >
    > If we say 4.9 was the first because 4.9 < 5.1, then it is wrong because
    > 5.0 doesn't have it.
    >
    > If we say 4.9 was the first because 4.9 was released before 5.1, well,
    > it isn't.
    >
    > The only way to do it is use the actual order of release, however much
    > trouble that might cause to people running 4.9 that get surprised that a
    > feature was first present in 5.1. :-)

    Or perhaps "This driver first appeared in FreeBSD 4.9 and 5.1"... or
    something along those lines. 

    -- 
Simon L. Nielsen

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