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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org, Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Subject: Re: updates on the GDB online documentation
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:53:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3fx8nfoli.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200911091939.30934.pedro@codesourcery.com> (Pedro Alves's 	message of "Mon, 9 Nov 2009 19:39:30 +0000")

>>>>> "Pedro" == Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com> writes:

Pedro>  1 - currently sources documentation is too prominent.
Pedro>      People tend to link to current development sources, without
Pedro>      realizing it, when they should be linking to a particular
Pedro>      release's docs, and those should be stable forever (or as much
Pedro>      as possible anyway), but aren't.

FWIW, GCC does this nicely, see:

http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/

In particular it is nicely separated by version, with the development
docs at the end, where you're unlikely to click on them by mistake.

Tom


  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-09 20:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-09 18:48 Joel Brobecker
2009-11-09 20:19 ` Pedro Alves
2009-11-09 20:53   ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2009-11-09 22:14   ` Marc Khouzam
2009-11-11  1:01 ` Joel Brobecker

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