Re: [9front] 9front Programmer's Manual

[sirjofri <sirjofri+ml-9front@sirjofri.de>]

06.08.2021 17:05:30 ori@eigenstate.org:
> Quoth Humm <hummsmith42@gmail.com>:
>>
>> So, what’s the situation?  Are there any plans other than continuing
>> to let it rot?
>
> Updates and fixes to manpages are always
> welcome and applied regularly. Improving
> and fixing the build system is also good.
>
> But papers are papers. It seems strange
> to modify them. I think for papers, it
> makes most sense to add a 'changes since
> publication' document.

Absolutely, maybe as an appendix to the other documents or to the whole 
collection.

> I'd also like more tutorial or 'theory of
> operation' style docs that supplement the
> manpages, and show how parts of the system
> fit together, but I'm not much of a writer,
> and haven't put much thought into this.

Some people started writing stuff for the wiki, also the fqa contains 
some info (eg. Upas theory). I planned to write some papers about that 
when I had more time, but then I didn't have that time...

Personally, I like writing, although my language might not be sufficient.

Slightly offtopic, but I made pdf versions of the man pages available on 
my 9front public web server, especially for ereaders. I generally wanted 
to mirror some stuff.

sirjofri