[EMAIL PROTECTED] (James A. Crippen) scribbled:
> Jens Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >
> > > The general answer is, the usual, "it depends". The documentation
> > > for different extensions is in different places, if it exists at
> > > all.
> >
> > Should we consider putting protocol documents in a common place under
> > the source tree?
>
> Since the official X Consortium documentation is already extant in the
> source tree, and since the formats aren't standardized for this anyway
> (some is in text only, some is in troff+ms macros, some is in
> FrameMaker (for some weird reason, and totally useless to Freenix
> folk)), I think it'd be a very good idea to do so. Maybe just add a
> new xc/doc/xfree86 directory and put everything specific to XFree86 in
> there. Whatever formats are available. Plain text, SGML/DocBook,
> PostScript, troff, TeX... It's all pretty anarchic anyway.
There's already a place in the (source) tree for XFree86-specific documentation:
xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/doc/
there just isn't any protocol documentation there right now.
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