Re: Updated Gnu tools manpages, maybe you'd like to know? ('gnumaniak')
On 7 Jan 2002 at 13:11, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Soren Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: creating more updated man pages for (many of the core) Gnu apps we use ... http://www.userfriendly.net/linux/RPM/contrib/noarch/noarch/gnumaniak-1. 4-1.noarch.html ftp://ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu/pub/linux/docs/man-pages/ ftp://ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu/pub/linux/docs/man-pages/gnumaniak-1.5.tar.gz But this file is about two years old...probably are the most manpages at your current Cygwin installation more up to date;) I wonder about how we would know that. Oh, I suppose someone could get very serious and look at each page for a revision date (I don't know `man' well enough to be 100% sure, but I think I recall that a revision date is part of the formatting...). My point is however, if GNU say they are no longer trying to keep man pages current, then how can we know how out-of-date any arbitrary one might be? maybe you have inside information (by inside I mean access to facts about GNU which are not first-glance general knowledge or something like that). If you do have a specific reason to believe you know (i don't mean to sound combative, you just didn't support your contention with anything, leaving -- imho -- a question in the reader's mind) that the Cygwin- installed apps' man-pages are going to be more current than something dated in 1999 or 2000, pls tell me. Thanks --for the urls, great! , Soren Andersen -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Updated Gnu tools manpages, maybe you'd like to know? ('gnumaniak')
- Original Message - From: Soren Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 8 Jan 2002 at 22:03, Robert Collins wrote: Given that info documentation can be converted to manpages, I see little reason to maintain man pages separately. Over the course of using cygwin in the past, `info' wouldn't always work for me. Maybe some flag or .rc file hadn't been set, whatever. It does work now. Yes, I know. Remember that I'm writing my emails in the context of what has been fixed. info is a known previous issue, and the packaging guidelines explicitly mention handling of info pages. Just because something can (in abstract principle) be done, doesn't always mean *everyone* currently can or (more to the point) knows how. That's the whole point of binary distros of any[open-source]thing, is it not? So that people can focus on what they are most interested in developing or using? Do you want a philsophical discussion on the english language? I presume you simply missed the point of my comment. Packages such as bash (picking one at random) have 'up to date' manpages. I believe (haven't checked the Makefile) they achieve this by virtue of converting their info documentation to man pages, not by manually updating the man pages. So it doesn't matter if everyone can. It matters if the package maintainers can. It doesn't matter if only the upstream package developers know how, their makefiles do it for the package maintainers (most of the time). general policy we could be informed about, that would hold true most of the time, regarding how out-of-date the manpages might be? Someone reading this might know. There is no policy regarding manpages for packages in the cygwin net distribution at this point in time. Common sense prevails. Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Updated Gnu tools manpages, maybe you'd like to know? ('gnumaniak')
Soren, 2002-01-07 12:54:36, du schriebst: I checked the archives and didn't see signs that this was previously known: I came across a project (gnumaniak) that is creating more updated man pages for (many of the core) Gnu apps we use ... http://www.userfriendly.net/linux/RPM/contrib/noarch/noarch/gnumaniak-1.4-1.noarch.html ftp://ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu/pub/linux/docs/man-pages/ ftp://ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu/pub/linux/docs/man-pages/gnumaniak-1.5.tar.gz But this file is about two years old...probably are the most manpages at your current Cygwin installation more up to date;) Gerrit -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
new german manpages (was: Re: Updated Gnu tools manpages, maybe you'd like to know? ('gnumaniak'))
Gerrit, 2002-01-07 13:19:23, du schriebst: But this file is about two years old...probably are the most manpages at your current Cygwin installation more up to date;) BTW, there are also NEW german manpages: Begin4 Title: manpages-de Version:0.4 Entered-date: 2002-01-01 Description:German manpages for GNU/Linux This packaage contains German translations of manpages from the man-pages packages as well as some commonly used section 1 manpages from other packages. Keywords: man pages german Author: joey at infodrom.org (Martin Schulze) Maintained-by: joey at infodrom.org (Martin Schulze) Primary-site: http://www.infodrom.org/projects/manpages-de/download/ 475kB manpages-de-0.4.tar.gz 1kB manpages-de-0.4.lsm Alternate-site: ftp.ibiblio.org /pub/Linux/docs/man-pages/ Copying-policy: several; all freely distributable End -- Gerrit -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
