patch to remove FreeBSD < 7 from the Handbook

[Benedict Reuschling]

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Am 19.11.10 17:42, schrieb Rene Ladan:
> Hi list,
> 
> Because FreeBSD 6.X will be officially unsupported after this month, I
> made a patch [1] to streamline the Handbook so that it only supports
> FreeBSD 7.X and up (assuming I did not miss anything).
> 
> Some more notes:
> - old versions in historical context are left in tact.
> - the section about KerberosIV has been removed, since it is applicable
> to FreeBSD < 6 only
> - the instructions to install SAP R/3 have been commented out for now,
> since they were last tested on FreeBSD 4.3 and 4.5. Maybe these and the
> other instructions about installing Linux applications should be
> converted to articles?
> - XFree86 has been removed from the text (except when in historical
> context), only X.Org is supported these days.
> - Some port paths have been updated (e.g. mail/pine -> mail/alpine)
> - definitions for ctm-src-[5-8] have been added to mailing-lists.ent to
> fully support updating FreeBSD version numbers in examples.
> 
> I put some comments for others to look at (screenshots for alpine and
> updated instructions for MAC come to mind). And no, I will not commit
> this before having received some feedback.
> 
> [1] http://people.freebsd.org/~rene/patches/handbook.diff
> SIZE = 115079
> SHA256 = 1efcd3dc978c9d969c7aff9576fb63a374208e108d906af3895d7c7f5d2a1ffd
> 
> Cheers,
> Rene

Thanks for all the work you did, Rene! I agree with you about Kerberos
and SAP being too old to be relevant for the recent releases. Although I
managed to get the SAPGUI working a while ago [1], they recently removed
the Java version from their FTP server, so that is no longer an option.
But that is a different story...

The only comment I have about your patch is that you added some
SGML-comments in various places (starting with "rene"). If you want, you
can add some of them to the handbook section of the DocIdeaList [2] for
someone to work on them. That way, you can remove the comments from your
patch before committing it, but keep the comments as a sort of todo-list
in the wiki.

[1] http://people.freebsd.org/~bcr/FreeBSD-SAP.png
[2] http://wiki.freebsd.org/DocIdeaList

Regards

Benedict Reuschling
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