Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Converting from Info to man is harder than it may seem. The script >> that does it now is basically a hack that doesn't really work well >> even for the small part of the manual that it tries to cover. > > I'd noticed. :) > > I haven't looked at the script that does this work; I had assumed > that it was some standard tool for this task, but perhaps it's > something more custom?
Our `texi2pod' comes from GCC, and it would seem that it was written for GCC/binutils. The version in the latest binutils is almost identical to what Wget ships, plus a bug fix or two. Given its state and capabilities, I doubt that it is widely used, so unfortunately it's pretty far from being a standard tool. I would have much preferred to use a standard tool, but as far as I knew none was available at the time. In fact, I'm not aware of one now, either. >> As for the "stub" man page... Debian for one finds it unacceptable, >> and I can kind of understand why. > > Yeah, especially since they're frequently forced to leave out the > "authoritative" manual. This issue predates the GFDL debacle by several years, but yes, if anything, things have gotten worse in that department. Much worse.
