From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by melb.werple.net.au (8.7.4/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA24338 for ; Sat, 16 Mar 1996 17:27:16 +1100 (EST) Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA29276; Sat, 16 Mar 1996 01:13:54 -0500 (EST) Resent-Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 01:13:54 -0500 (EST) From: Zefram Message-Id: <24095.199603160613@stone.dcs.warwick.ac.uk> Subject: Re: ZSH presence on WWW cf. Perl To: mdb@cdc.noaa.gov (Mark Borges) Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 06:12:59 +0000 (GMT) Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu In-Reply-To: <9603152356.AA07279@suomi.cdc.noaa.gov> from "Mark Borges" at Mar 15, 96 04:56:54 pm X-Loop: zefram@dcs.warwick.ac.uk X-Stardate: [-31]7206.29 X-US-Congress: Moronic fuckers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"svNH4.0.J97.XmbIn"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/832 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu [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