On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 14:42, Dave Airlie wrote: > > I don't see how that's relevant. OK, the man page is wrong, does the > > existence of an info page somehow change this? > > > > Last I checked, the entire world (or, more importantly, the OSS > > community) hadn't decided on info as a standard. And man seems to be the > > defacto standard. And the problem info circumvented (no OSS roff tools) > > is solved. > > I'm not defending GNU, but you cannot say that GNU are not part of the OSS > community and GNU abandoned man along time ago, so the people who maintain > the utils don't mantain the docs...
I guess what I'm trying to say is that changes or improvements should generally be `backward compatible'. If GNU expect people to embrace info, they should make this as painless as possible. This means keeping the same behavior as existing systems. `man foo' should return something useful to the syntax and parameters of foo. It should be accurate, and not involve any additional pain (i.e., `see the info page' isn't an appropriate response, since I already told it what I was looking for, it should show me regardless of format, at least until info becomes more popular). Mike -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
