Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 12 Jul 1996 11:41:51 -0400 (EDT) | From | G Sumner Hayes <> | Subject | Re: Is Changes to be renamed? |
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hpk@prim.han.de (Holger P. Krekel) writes: > Hello, > > some time ago (I think when Linus was away) there was a discussion > about renaming the Documentation/Changes to something like "READMEFIRST" > or "WARNINGS" or whatever in the toplevel directory. > This could prevent this list from questions like > "my ps does't work anymore" or "make doesnt work" etc. This is because there > will be similar changes in the future, won't there? >
I think it would make a lot of sense to maintain a "Changes-2.0.x" file (or "Changes-2.1.x") for each version released that requires new software. A global "Changes" file would also be useful. That way, people who grab every other kernel could just check to see what was new and people whoupgrade wholesale would have a place to check what versions of everything they need. Alas, maintenance of this would be difficult. Perhaps a single "NEWS" file which contains the diffs that were applied to "Changes" for this version? *sigh* I'd much rather have Linux writing code than fending of onslaughts of "Make/PS/PPP are broken!" queries.
Adding a top-level "README_BEFORE_INSTALLING" file would be nice - Documentation/Changes could be moved here or it could just be a pointer to that file.
As a third thought, having "make config/menuconfig/xconfig" give a BIG BOLD MESSAGE saying to read Documentation/Changes would be a Good Thing(TM).
TTFN,
Sumner
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