Re^2: Documentation Policy
Am 25.06.97 schrieb joey # kite.ml.org ...
Moin Joey!
JH> I haven't been following this thread closely (catching up on mail backlog
JH> after vacation), but the reason I've heard why it's not acceptable to ship
JH> only info files and convert to html on the fly is because the converter in
JH> dwww that does this produces crappy output. Why not just replace it with a
Why should we ship info files? HTML is better format. The most system will
use HTML as their help system in the future. KDE for example uses HTML.
JH> better converter? This dicussion smells to me of making policy to work
JH> around a technical problem.
Because it's impossible to make a good converter? The most user's don't
like the info format and its browsers.
cu, Marco
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