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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:18:00 -0000
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Documentation generated from sources proposal
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To: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
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> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:13:01 +0200
> From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
> Cc: jeremy.bennett@embecosm.com, gdb@sourceware.org
> 
> On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:18:28 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > No, the format generated from the comments must be Texinfo.
> 
> Are there some specific technical or FSF reasons?

Both.  The GNU Project writes documentation in Texinfo, and if I need
to be responsible for the GDB manuals, I need to be an expert in the
language we use to write them.

> I freely admit a side track of my proposal was to be able to start writing the
> doc in a different format than texinfo.

I don't see a need to start that battle.  Texinfo is more than
adequate for GDB, IMO.

> Still a .c-placed doc even in the texinfo format I find a useful improvement.

Yes, of course.