> On Apr 23, 2018, at 3:20 PM, Daniel Stenberg <dan...@haxx.se> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 23 Apr 2018, Philip Prindeville wrote:
> 
>> I was just looking at the contents of docs/libcurl/opts as I work on PR 
>> #2495, and was wondering why options like CURLINFO_FILETIME and 
>> CURLINFO_FILETIME_T don’t share the same page, since they’re just different 
>> versions of the same thing?
> 
> There are a few reasons:
> 
> 1. I find it clearer and more straight-forward to only document a single 
> function on that single page. Clearer for the reader that is.
> 
> 2. It was very easy to do.
> 
> 3. Our infrastrcture on the web site (that generates the contents) and tests 
> etc presume this one to one mapping in several places, so it has also been a 
> matter of going with the least resistance or least amount of extra work.
> 
> None of them are very strong or says we can't change how things are going 
> forward.
> 
> 


Got it done.

Should I add cross-references “SEE ALSO” to the man pages?

Otherwise, the PR should be ready to go…

-Philip


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