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From: Zefram <A.Main@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
To: mdb@cdc.noaa.gov (Mark Borges)
Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: ZSH presence on WWW cf. Perl
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 06:12:59 +0000 (GMT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <24095.199603160613@stone.dcs.warwick.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9603152356.AA07279@suomi.cdc.noaa.gov> from "Mark Borges" at Mar 15, 96 04:56:54 pm

[on Perl POD]
>Further, POD is easy to type, which is important because documentation
>updates would be far more likely to be bundled with the patches.

We already tend to get man page updates, when necessary, with code
patches.  The cases where we don't I think are more due to people
forgetting than to the difficulty of using nroff.  Editing nroff source
is not difficult.

>And you get pod2man, pod2html, maybe even a pod2texi, for free.

pod2man would get us a man page, which we already have, and would do a
worse job of it than we would.  HTML is irrelevant.  pod2texi would let
us produce a printed manual, which can already be done from nroff, or
an info file, which is also irrelevant.  I don't see the advantage
here.

-zefram



  parent reply	other threads:[~1996-03-16  6:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1996-03-15 23:56 Mark Borges
1996-03-16  0:12 ` Richard J. Coleman
1996-03-18  8:30   ` Bas V. de Bakker
1996-03-18  8:47     ` Peter Stephenson
1996-03-18 15:44     ` Vidiot
1996-03-16  0:27 ` Chris Dean
1996-03-16  6:12 ` Zefram [this message]
1996-03-18  8:21   ` Bas V. de Bakker
1996-03-18  9:07     ` Zefram
1996-03-18 19:47       ` Mark Borges

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