On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 06:56:24PM +0200, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > C. Michael Pilato wrote on Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 12:01:41 -0400: > > On 10/29/2010 11:57 AM, Stefan Sperling wrote: > > > Thoughts? Comments? > > > > I've not reviewed your suggested help text. But merely seeing the size of > > makes me wonder ... is it time for 'svn help SUBCOMMAND --verbose' ? > > Don't you think the help text you've written has outgrown being > maintained as a string literal in some C source file?
I've already been toying with the idea of moving the help texts into their own file (e.g. help.c). The C strings defined in that file would then be used by main.c. The file could possibly be auto-generated, but we'd have to be careful not to make things harder for translators if we did that. > We could maintain it in *.txt/manpage/docbook format. If you'd like it > to be shipped alongside our libraries/binaries, I'm sure that can be > arranged... I'd like to keep the texts short enough so they can still be embedded as C strings into the binary. Being constrained is a good thing because I don't want the help texts to end up replacing the book.
