On Thu, 21 Jul 2016 16:41:53 +0200 Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Am 21.07.2016 um 01:28 schrieb Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>: > > > I would hope that most people wouldn't have to worry about it, and would > > be able to just use what their distribution provides - that's the reason > > for the 1.2 compatibility requirement in the first place. > > Yes, but this is not what I mean ;) ... if someone use a distro > with a version > 1.2 and he use features not in 1.2, you -- the > maintainer -- will get into trouble. Well, that's what we keep maintainers around. The same holds for any maintainer if somebody adds a dependency on a too-new version of some other tool. Such things happen, we simply fix them when they do. > IMHO contributors need a reference documentation (e.g. at kernel.org) > and a reference build environment (like you, see below). Reference documentation, yes. But I don't think every developer needs a Sphinx 1.2 installation, just like they don't need to have gcc 3.2 around. It's enough that somebody has it and will catch problems. jon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
