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Re: A new strategy for internals documentation
- From: Stan Shebs <stanshebs at earthlink dot net>
- To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- Cc: dje at google dot com, gdb at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 16:04:42 -0700
- Subject: Re: A new strategy for internals documentation
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On 8/9/13 2:35 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2013 16:02:58 -0700
>> From: Stan Shebs <stanshebs@earthlink.net>
>> CC: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>, gdb@sourceware.org
>>
>> I'm not sure what we're arguing at this point
>
> I'm done arguing. I regret I responded to your original message,
> because all that did is cause me aggravation and open old wounds.
> (Yes, it hurts to try to contribute to a community only to see the
> attempts rejected time and again.)
Indeed - I've probably put more hours into fixing up gdbint.texinfo than
any other person, and it's disappointing to see that it's pretty much
all gone to waste.
> One last bit is that changing the format of a GNU manual might need to
> be communicated to the FSF, I think. Or maybe a majority vote by the
> SC will be enough, I don't know (and don't care).
That's a good point. I was tending to assume that any new
auto-generated thing would just be web pages.
Stan
stan@codesourcery.com