Re: A new strategy for internals documentation

Stan Shebs
2013-08-09T23:04:52Z

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