Re: Poject bootstraping script in Developer Guide

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at cs dot toronto dot edu>]

On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Muhammad Alkarouri wrote:

> Another point, Behdad. As long as there is a standard or a decision
> already taken we should abide by it. If it needs a change we need some
> discussion, or at least a notification before changing.
> The Makefile.cvs existing in the bicon cvs was not in anybody's way, I
> think, so you needn't have removed it before explaining your point.
> Especially that the 'will be' developer's guide did not give us a
> ./bootstrap option, without a Makefile.cvs/autogen.sh.

Sorry for that, I did that since the Source Code section of Dev
Guide is labled as optional or so.  I must confess I'm biased
here since Makefile.cvs is KDEish.

> >   * Manpages:  They are old and being kinda deprecated.  The
> > format is evil and other stuff.  Many (GNU) recommends info
> > pages, but they are not necessarily easier to write.  For
> > example, GNU FriBidi is asked to have info pages instead of man.
>
> Man pages are old, but they have not been _successfully_ deprecated (if
> you get what I mean). I wouldn't require info pages as a must, a mention
> is probably worth it.

Got you.  Just if there were really WYSIWYG editors for them :(.

> Muhammad Alkarouri

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