Re: CVS commit: basesrc

[James Chacon <jchacon%genuity.net@localhost>]

>
>   
>   :    Added Files:
>   :           basesrc: BUILDING.html BUILDING.txt
>   
>   : i'm not sure how much i'm liking this proliferation of top-level
>   : documentation.   can't we create a src/docs and shove all these
>   : in there now?
>   
>   Well, the intent is to do away with UPDATING entirely when everything is
>   switched to the new toolchain.  The top-level location of this document is
>   rather important, as it is *the* documentation for the entrypoint into
>   building NetBSD from source.
>
>hmm, UPDATING will still be useful for building kernels.

Yeah. It should still exist, but just get fewer updates.

James

>   close reach of the top level Makefile and build.sh.
>
>i guess i mostly object to having multiple (generated!) versions
>of the same file in the top level, as well as other documents.
>a single document is fine.
>

I'd say leave the .txt version around and forget about the other ones (ala
Packages.txt).

James