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

[Simon L. Nielsen]

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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