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Re: gdb.texinfo is getting too big
- From: Stan Shebs <stanshebs at earthlink dot net>
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- Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 13:06:58 -0700
- Subject: Re: gdb.texinfo is getting too big
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On 10/14/13 7:44 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 13:25:59 -0700
>> From: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
>> Cc: gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>, Stan Shebs <stan@codesourcery.com>
>>
>> Next question: Any strong preference for how?
>> I suggested splitting up by chapter, and that's fine with me, but
>> before I do all that work, IWBN to get pre-approval for at least the
>> general idea.
>> I count > 40.
>> Is there a less granular split people want?
>
> No, it's too fine-grained. 40 files is too much, IMO. It is better
> to group several consecutive chapters into a single file.
I'm inclined to the chapter division - it seems to work well enough for
GCC, and it makes it easier to rearrange chapters in the main manual,
or do subsets, such as a "User's Manual", "Scripter's Manual",
and the like.
Stan
stan@codesourcery.com