Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 00:15:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Paul Richards <paul@isl.cf.ac.uk> To: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: terry@cs.weber.edu, hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Mail about `dir' file. Message-ID: <199501110015.AAA03681@isl.cf.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <7441.789699196@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jan 9, 95 04:53:16 pm
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In reply to Jordan K. Hubbard who said > > > I saw it; I wasn't horribly enamored of the idea of info files at all, > > having hacked help files on VMS for far too long in my miguided youth. > > Maybe, but we've already got a browser we can count on having with the > system (unless you're prepared right here and now to try and get lynx > into /usr/bin :-) that a number of people are ALREADY FAMILIAR WITH > and it's called info. I'm all in favour of providing an info system but.... > > My personal preference would be to do the docs in sgml, sure, but the > very minute texinfo output works, pop copies of the output into > /usr/share/info at install time. That would give us nice online docs > using a browser that may be a little crufty, but it's small and it's > been around for a real long time. Don't worry, we'll produce HTML too > so that folks like you can browse with netscape all you wish! :-) I'm really dead against texinfo becoming the standard we use for *writing our* docs in. Sure we need to support info pages that come (mainly) with the gnu software but we should pick something better for our own stuff. The XFree86 group have gone for the Linux system and I'd really like to see us do the same. Rich can probably comment on why they did and what the benefits are. -- Paul Richards, FreeBSD core team member. Phone: +44 1222 874000 x5958 (work), +44 1222 457651 (home) Dept. Mechanical Engineering, University of Wales, College Cardiff. Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org, JANET(UK): RICHARDSDP@CARDIFF.AC.UK
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