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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