From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4920 invoked by alias); 9 Aug 2013 23:04:52 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 4893 invoked by uid 89); 9 Aug 2013 23:04:52 -0000 X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,RDNS_NONE autolearn=no version=3.3.1 Received: from Unknown (HELO elasmtp-banded.atl.sa.earthlink.net) (209.86.89.70) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.84/v0.84-167-ge50287c) with ESMTP; Fri, 09 Aug 2013 23:04:51 +0000 Received: from [68.96.200.16] (helo=macbook2.local) by elasmtp-banded.atl.sa.earthlink.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1V7vje-0003Pr-VS; Fri, 09 Aug 2013 19:04:43 -0400 Message-ID: <5205758A.1030003@earthlink.net> Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 23:04:00 -0000 From: Stan Shebs User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eli Zaretskii CC: dje@google.com, gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: A new strategy for internals documentation References: <5201781A.3000607@earthlink.net> <83k3jyunt8.fsf@gnu.org> <5202A6D6.8090908@earthlink.net> <83li4ct7ot.fsf@gnu.org> <8361vfu9t4.fsf@gnu.org> <520423A2.6010304@earthlink.net> <83siyjrytv.fsf@gnu.org> In-Reply-To: <83siyjrytv.fsf@gnu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: ae6f8838ff913eba0cc1426638a40ef67e972de0d01da940841d6282b61c5e3a82085cf104e7d982350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-SW-Source: 2013-08/txt/msg00057.txt.bz2 On 8/9/13 2:35 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2013 16:02:58 -0700 >> From: Stan Shebs >> CC: Doug Evans , 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