Re: [PATCH 00/18] Complete moving media documentation to ReST format

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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
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