Re: @dircategory for gdb manuals

["Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 09:41:36 -0400
> From: karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry)
> 
>     > Perhaps "Software development" would be better.
> 
>     Why not leave it in the same category as the GDB user manual?  
> 
> "Software development" is in fact the category I was proposing for the
> GDB user manual.

That's okay with me.

>     I doubt that some J. Random Hacker will be too interested in reading
>     that, unless he or she is working on GDB development.
> 
> I don't understand what you're saying.  I agree, J. Random Hacker is not
> likely to be interested in reading the GDB internals manual unless
> they're working on GDB.  And this is why I proposed different categories
> for them!

I was saying that gdbint.texinfo without gdb.texinfo is not a useful
reading.  They should be (and probably are) read together, and thus
it doesn't make much sense, IMHO, to separate them.

> Since stabs, bfd, and mmalloc are pretty clearly "Software libraries",
> it seemed to me that the most natural place for the internals manual
> (which is related to those) was also Software libraries

The difference between bfd and mmalloc on the one side, and stabs on
the other is that the latter is not really a general-purpose library
like the former.