Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/10/18/12:16:07
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 11:30:18AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >Attached are patches to bugs.html and src/winsup/doc/how-resources.texinfo.
>
> Thanks. I've applied a modified version of your patch to bugs.html and
> forwarded the FAQ patch to the FAQ maintainer.
>
> >Oh, and they probably don't need ChangeLog entries, do they?
>
> It's an iffy thing. The html doesn't need one and, supposedly,
> documentation isn't supposed to have a ChangeLog because the changes are
> obvious but there is a ChangeLog in the winsup/doc directory. However,
> I'll let the maintainer make the call about the ChangeLog. I doubt that
> it is worth the bother.
I was thinking more in terms of using the ChangeLog entries as cvs commit
messages... But anyway, it's probably not worth it -- the changes are
obvious.
> Thanks for the patch. And, even more importantly, thanks for thinking
> proactively about this.
No problem. I just vaguely remembered reading about this, so I went to
check, and sure enough, there it was.
> Thanks to Randall for suggesting this, too. I liked the idea but I
> never acknowledged that fact. And, I'm embarrassed to admit that it
> never occurred to me to modify the cygwin web pages/documentation.
> cgf
I think requesting cygcheck output as an attachment in your recent
messages was acknowledgement enough... As for the documentation, the
users probably read it more often than the maintainers. :-D
Igor
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