On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Todd Whitesel wrote:

> Oops, I was deliberately keeping quiet, as I've gotten good and burned out
> by 1.4.2 and really need to spend time on non-NetBSD stuff for a while. So
> I didn't want to get anyone's hopes up by saying anything right now.
> 
	Ahem, sorry Todd :)

> > 	How about a BUILD_README or similar in the base of the src tree -
> > 	anytime someone makes a change that would break building from
> > 	the last release source, they note the tool that is affected,
> > 	and any particular gotcha. It won't catch everything (tools
> > 	get updated for some reason, then at a later point a new feature
> > 	is used in the build), but at least after the first person reports
> > 	it it can get added to the file.
> 
> After realizing one week that I was able to handle nearly all the "current
> doesn't build, waah" emails, simply because I'd just got done bringing six
> machines from 1.4.1 to current, it occurred to me that a FAQ-O-Matic web
> page would be the real solution to this.

	That would also work - in fact that would be a damn useful thing
	to have for other information, but I think for tracking current
	the best place for the magic is in a file with the source,
	particularly for those with indirect internet access who download
	then sneakernet it home...


		David/absolute