Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 17:01:51 -0400 From: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Man Pages Thoughts Message-ID: <20040819170151.568a7d9f@localhost.pittgoth.com> In-Reply-To: <20040819150125.4fbae6e2.wmoran@potentialtech.com> References: <41249BC4.7000205@pushitlive.net> <20040819085015.73799dca.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <20040819112808.52f7bdc5@localhost.pittgoth.com> <20040819150125.4fbae6e2.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 15:01:25 -0400 Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> wrote: > > Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > > > > %pwd > > /usr/src > > %find . -name '*.[1-9]' | xargs grep 'EXAMPLES' | wc -l > > 493 > > %find . -name '*.[1-9]' | wc -l > > 2892 > > > > So basically, you only need to fix 2399 manual pages; > > > > NOTES: > > > > 1: This counts files in contrib; > > Can't do that. Yes we can. Many times we've modified manual pages in contrib or applied a make(1) work around. Just it makes updates to the code in CVS more difficult. :( > > > 2: Some example sections would be dubious (rc.conf, make.conf, etc); > > Agreed. Many daemons don't need example sections, such as ftpd, etc. > > This was why I recommended he point out the particular man page(s) that > he thought needed examples. Well, we could just say "All functions, system calls, etc. require EXAMPLES" but that would be more work than we have time for I think. > > > 3: Personally, I honestly don't have the time for a project > > like this. Sorry. > > Oh, come on. You're not doing anything else important ... I'll tell you > what ... take the time you spend chasing women around and cut it in half. > You'll still be getting way more sex than me, and you'll have a ton of > extra time to work on FreeBSD stuff! Hey, you can't say that. Consider this, last night was the first time I talked to a "new" girl in awhile. Gave her my phone number, but she won't call me and I know it. And now that I think of it, I probably shouldn't be discussing my addictions on this list. Besides, I'd like to see you prove that mathmatically. :P -- Tom Rhodes
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20040819170151.568a7d9f>