Re: [PATCH] Re: Improving List Archive Searching

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

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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