For me, I tend to prefer the HTML version over the man pages, but I have always used the HTML pages on your website. I have never used the locally stored version and didn't even realize they came with the compressed file. I do still use the manpages, especially when I'm logged into a server remotely.
I just thought you'd like to know. Thanks. On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 2:41 AM, Daniel Stenberg <dan...@haxx.se> wrote: > Hi friends! > > Do the HTML and PDF versions of our man pages that we ship in every > tarball provide any value to you? > > Removing them from the tarballs would take away between 30-35% of the > compressed file size and thus produce much smaller release packages. > > A simple check right now: > > bz2 - from 4047215 to 2568070 bytes > zip - from 7366802 to 5019690 bytes > > I just have the feeling that very few users actually care for these > versions of the docs so we're just artifically bloat the package to very > little gain. > > It would only remove them from releases, you could still build them > locally if you'd like them. We also keep providing the HTML versions of all > man pages on the web site and I suspect *that* is the primary source for > curl docs to many/most people. > > -- > > / daniel.haxx.se > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > List admin: https://cool.haxx.se/list/listinfo/curl-library > Etiquette: https://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html
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