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authorRickard Green <[email protected]>2014-03-21 14:36:13 +0100
committerRickard Green <[email protected]>2014-03-21 14:36:13 +0100
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diff --git a/system/doc/system_principles/versions.xml b/system/doc/system_principles/versions.xml
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+++ b/system/doc/system_principles/versions.xml
@@ -79,18 +79,18 @@
</section>
<section><title>OTP Versions Table</title>
- <p>The text file <c>&lt;OTP source root&gt;/otp_versions.table</c>
- part of the source code contains information about all OTP versions
+ <p>The text file <c>&lt;OTP source root&gt;/otp_versions.table</c> that
+ is part of the source code contains information about all OTP versions
from OTP 17.0 up to current OTP version. Each line contains information
- about application versions part of a specific OTP version, and is on
- the format:</p>
+ about application versions that are part of a specific OTP version, and
+ is on the format:</p>
<pre>
-&lt;OtpVersion&gt; : &lt;ChangedAppVersions&gt; # &lt;UnchangedAppVersions&gt;
+&lt;OtpVersion&gt; : &lt;ChangedAppVersions&gt; # &lt;UnchangedAppVersions&gt; :
</pre>
<p><c>&lt;OtpVersion&gt;</c> is on the format <c>OTP-&lt;VSN&gt;</c>, i.e.,
the same as the git tag used to identify the source.
<c>&lt;ChangedAppVersions&gt;</c> and <c>&lt;UnchangedAppVersions&gt;</c>
- are white space separated lists of application versions on the
+ are space separated lists of application versions on the
format <c>&lt;application&gt;-&lt;vsn&gt;</c>.
<c>&lt;ChangedAppVersions&gt;</c> corresponds to changed applications
with new version numbers in this OTP version, and
@@ -99,14 +99,15 @@
not at the same time. If &lt;ChangedAppVersions&gt; is empty, no changes
has been made that change the build result of any application. This could
for example be a pure bug fix of the build system. The order of lines
- is undefined.</p>
+ is undefined. All white space characters in this file are either space
+ (character 32) or line-break (character 10).</p>
<p>Using ordinary UNIX tools like <c>sed</c> and <c>grep</c> one
can easily find answers to various questions like:</p>
<taglist>
<tag>Which OTP versions are <c>kernel-3.0</c> part of?</tag>
- <item><p><c> $ grep 'kernel-3\.0' otp_versions.table</c></p></item>
+ <item><p><c> $ grep ' kernel-3\.0 ' otp_versions.table</c></p></item>
<tag>In which OTP version was <c>kernel-3.0</c> introduced?</tag>
- <item><p><c> $ sed 's/#.*//;/kernel-3\.0/!d' otp_versions.table</c></p></item>
+ <item><p><c> $ sed 's/#.*//;/ kernel-3\.0 /!d' otp_versions.table</c></p></item>
</taglist>
<p>The above commands give a bit more information than the exact answers,
but adequate information when manually searching for answers to these