From: lyndon@orthanc.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Subject: [TUHS] Another "craft" discussion topic - mindless tool proliferation
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 17:47:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <91641FC6-4CF5-4682-B8C3-8BB3DCCB208C@orthanc.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170919233525.k3otv5as6xi2rqht@thunk.org>
> On Sep 19, 2017, at 4:35 PM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso at mit.edu> wrote:
>
> If you take a look at how perl handles its man pages, with 188 man
> pages in section 1:
... you quickly recognize the difference between a manpage (i.e. reference page) and a user manual. Perl's (and other's) attempts to pack a 200 page user guide into a block of manpages is a misuse of what manpages represent.
texinfo was a good move in the direction towards online, cross-referenced, user documentation. But so often that lead to manpages that consisted of the single line "see the texinfo doc"; the documentation authors completely missing the point.
--lyndon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-20 0:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-19 17:01 Jon Steinhart
2017-09-19 17:05 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-09-19 20:31 ` Pete Turnbull
2017-09-19 20:37 ` Warner Losh
2017-09-19 23:35 ` Theodore Ts'o
2017-09-20 0:47 ` Lyndon Nerenberg [this message]
2017-09-20 1:02 ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-20 1:09 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-09-20 1:13 ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-20 1:22 ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-20 2:01 ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-20 2:34 ` Bakul Shah
2017-09-20 2:47 ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-20 6:18 ` Bakul Shah
2017-09-20 4:35 ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-20 5:54 ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-09-24 23:03 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-09-24 23:35 ` Bakul Shah
2017-09-20 16:49 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-09-20 4:29 ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-20 6:43 ` Peter Jeremy
2017-09-20 8:25 ` Bakul Shah
2017-09-20 9:12 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-09-20 9:34 ` Bakul Shah
2017-09-20 16:48 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-09-20 2:07 ` Theodore Ts'o
2017-09-24 22:58 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-09-20 4:26 ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-20 16:45 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-09-21 17:33 ` Tony Finch
2017-09-21 18:39 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-09-22 0:02 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2017-09-22 0:30 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-09-22 0:38 ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-22 0:39 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-09-22 0:50 ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-22 1:01 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-09-22 1:08 ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-22 20:09 ` [TUHS] remaking make (Re: " Bakul Shah
2017-09-22 2:25 ` [TUHS] " Warner Losh
2017-09-22 3:26 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2017-09-22 4:09 ` ron minnich
2017-09-22 2:20 ` Warner Losh
2017-09-22 0:36 ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-22 0:40 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-09-22 1:53 ` Michael Parson
2017-09-22 3:25 ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-20 6:20 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-09-20 16:39 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-09-24 22:54 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-09-25 0:16 ` Steve Johnson
2017-09-25 11:30 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-09-20 18:15 ` Clem Cole
2017-09-20 18:35 ` Jon Steinhart
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