On Mon, 6 Jan 2003 20:59:12 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Feigning erudition, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > % Hmm, I'll look at Mplayer then. I understand almost all of the stuff we > use is done by people like us in our spare time but it seems the docs or > at least a decent overview of what a package does and what you need is > lacking on most things out there - even some of the "professional" ones!% > % Docs are NOT optional! <G>. > > Agreed. But, programmers should not be the ones to write the docs.
Very true. OTOH, our company decided to write docs for a bunch of software, purposely not contacting the programmers. It made for nice sci-fi reading about what the documenters thought the software 'should' do. Admittedly, an extreme example. As a programmer, I would perfer that someone else document the stuff. But I hate it when features go missing in the docs. Lots of work, and no one knows it is even there... -- +����������������������������+�������������������������������+ � Roger Oberholtzer � E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] � � OPQ Systems AB � WWW: http://www.opq.se/ � � Erik Dahlbergsgatan 41-43 � Phone: Int + 46 8 314223 � � 115 34 Stockholm � Mobile: Int + 46 733 621657 � � Sweden � Fax: Int + 46 8 302602 � +����������������������������+�������������������������������+ _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
