Previously Martin Quinson wrote: > I think that putting the documentation along the code is the a very good > solution to get developpers documenting their changes.
The problem here is CVS, which has a broken idea that a commit can not span multiple files. Also note that we are slowly moving to switching to docbook documentation for everything in dpkg, including manpages. > We are thinking about other modules, like wml (web meta language), > texinfo, XML, HTML and others. gettext for XML already exists, and I would like to use that instead.. > So, translating pod documentation is as easy as translating man pages (or > even easier), and pod is far simpler to write for programmers, which is > another argument for saying that pod documentation is potentially better > maintained... docbook is just as easy. The whole issue is somewhat moot since all perl will disappear from dpkg anyway :) Wichert. -- Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.wiggy.net/ A random hacker
