From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30000 invoked by alias); 8 Apr 2002 23:21:36 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 29993 invoked from network); 8 Apr 2002 23:21:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO darkstar.welcomehome.org) (192.203.188.2) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 8 Apr 2002 23:21:35 -0000 Received: (from rob@localhost) by darkstar.welcomehome.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) id g38NSY821906; Mon, 8 Apr 2002 17:28:34 -0600 Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 16:21:00 -0000 From: Rob Savoye To: Andrew Cagney Cc: Fernando Nasser , Michael Elizabeth Chastain , drow@mvista.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: RFC: KFAIL DejaGnu patch Message-ID: <20020408172834.B21238@welcomehome.org> References: <200204051753.g35HrUn23328@duracef.shout.net> <3CAE4182.BED29D4D@redhat.com> <20020407173534.B16561@welcomehome.org> <3CB1B7E3.799AC665@redhat.com> <20020408100922.C3523@welcomehome.org> <3CB203BC.2010405@cygnus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <3CB203BC.2010405@cygnus.com>; from Andrew Cagney on Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 04:55:24PM -0400 X-SW-Source: 2002-04/txt/msg00328.txt.bz2 On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 04:55:24PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote: > Um, I really have no desire to have to learn yet another documentation > language (Ask Eli how painfull it has been having me learn the current > one). Especially when all other GNU projects I'm involved in use texinfo. SGML and texinfo are similar enough, I didn't find it that hard to learn yet another documentation language. Funny enough, I switched to Docbook at Cygnus, after all the gripes from the doc department. :-) We used it for eCOS, cause it would generate RTF output, which was a requirement of our customer. > Is there any absolutly compelling reason to not convert the current > docbook back to texinfo and, instead, stick with that? Yes. DocBook is way better than Texinfo at representing technical documents, than texinfo. Texinfo is great for glorified man pages, but SGML is better for technical manuals. While most older GNU projects use texinfo, I see that many newer GNU/Linux projects use DocBook. Although I haven't tried it, Abiword supposedly lets you do WYSIWYG editing of DocBook files. I just use psgml mode for Emacs now. - rob -