svn commit: r47757 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/versions

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Sat Nov 7 21:00:32 UTC 2015


On Sat, 7 Nov 2015, Conrad Meyer wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk at mit.edu> wrote:
>> It's worth keeping a placeholder entry around for 1100087 (maybe
>> "incomplete API change to sysctl_add_oid(9); see version 1100089") so that
>> people don't wonder why there's a gap.
>
> On the other hand, there are already big gaps between 1100081 and
> 1100085, and 1100086 was never documented.  Given the relatively short
> period of time (<1 day) between 1100087 and 1100089 and that this is
> on CURRENT, not a STABLE branch, I'm incline to leave it alone.  Of
> course if you're really insistent about keeping the 1100087 entry, I
> can re-add it.  (Or if you want to, go ahead. :-))

These are really a list of version numbers that are useful for checking 
specific FreeBSD features.

Since 87 was incomplete and presumably should not be used in any 
version-checking code, leaving it out is probably preferable to having 
people use it because it was the first thing they found.


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