gEDA-dev: Re: [Gnucap-devel] Gnucap docs build failure on FC5 (and other places)

[Peter TB Brett]

On Sunday 30 July 2006 01:05, Stuart Brorson wrote:
> >> Anyway, IMO we shouldn't require users to build .pdf files in their
> >> distributions.  Pdfs should just come with the distribution.  IMO a
> >> .pdf file is a "make dist" target, requiring the developer to have the
> >> right tools installed, not the user.
> >
> > If every package had pdf files already built, it would increase bandwidth
> > usage a large amount (eg, from Debian repositories).
>
> I'll bet you still use the GNU info system.  :-)

If only all libraries came with their manuals in info format, my software 
development tasks would be so much easier.  I browse info pages in Konqueror 
using the info:/ protocol, and it's just like web pages except for the much, 
much better search.

Info is highly undervalued, IMHO.

Peter

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