From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29269 invoked by alias); 16 Oct 2013 18:55:04 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 29252 invoked by uid 89); 16 Oct 2013 18:55:04 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-ve0-f175.google.com Received: from mail-ve0-f175.google.com (HELO mail-ve0-f175.google.com) (209.85.128.175) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Wed, 16 Oct 2013 18:55:03 +0000 Received: by mail-ve0-f175.google.com with SMTP id pa12so628100veb.20 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2013 11:55:01 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=U+3S55KHa9fH/fj+TR1zAlF9/mMpSrx1IgIER1ttAAk=; b=mkTpQXUSZ8ZXylNHD+vzYzBxKOVKSmNmHDzfg1S+XU6Lc7kpX5rJ7QKct773Jsy8Ml K9jdx50LBbmoUqamYw4VyQ2EyE598XCUXSxDGuDm9jGd7TNB1DmZrn6bcN7laQATOY9B IL4GCYc6YtRi/MdIeLCnSdGBF13/Zumw7CMOOxmoI/+K3NrWg7gQymCof9I4JaZrWJcl L9IoXAstn9xTOfKQPpj9Jwf4owpFVL+y8wlDdjqkos8WXNKRbQH7K9emBLk/BYX3hyIY vAitILF4ZrUkwrqeMEKWsmXlazMnrV4iMyKlQ+SxI1KvuGoummastnDeirgRC+81lz4p GdGg== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnvL11yOkrODK929ZFwQ6XzyS0Io9dCBQePO3GMFlhvk7zai/GME47j6vlmSbQgSEHSefox/Lq4pLsqxe9rclCf5Q1nsTg9qS1/aBdGxNb9hrhkh8MjgU40UpKoUSu3tLubjxiZeNHCr95bMGIZVrsZUXNIZFyP2Goi6sTCD8HNzy2FDdn8PKIriRgODphw13an16/PPieO0NISjm6F4W3Bnz9KtQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.52.230.35 with SMTP id sv3mr1592725vdc.27.1381949701065; Wed, 16 Oct 2013 11:55:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.52.37.138 with HTTP; Wed, 16 Oct 2013 11:55:00 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <83mwmbp80v.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83ob6rpqa5.fsf@gnu.org> <83mwmbp80v.fsf@gnu.org> Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 18:55:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: gdb.texinfo is getting too big From: Doug Evans To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: gdb-patches , Stan Shebs Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2013-10/txt/msg00493.txt.bz2 On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 7:44 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 13:25:59 -0700 >> From: Doug Evans >> Cc: gdb-patches , Stan Shebs >> >> 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. > >> [Keeping the split mechanical, by something like chapter, is easy. >> Otherwise a discussion could drag on ...] > > Well, you started it ;-) The worry I have with any kind of grouping not based on the doc itself is that it introduces a potentially non-intuitive layer that someone has to learn in order to know which file contains the text one wants to edit. grep will find it of course, but if one is having to grep too much, would that be a problem?