Re: Bug#335588: ocamlc man page does not mention -cc option
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 06:35:26PM +1000, skaller wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 09:40 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 01:12:12PM -0700, Chris Stork wrote:
> > > The -cc option of ocamlc is documented in the manual but not in the man
> > > page. This would have saved me quite some time since I assumed there is
> > > no such option based on man page.
> > > Maybe there are other omissions. I didn't check.
> > JFI the manpages are terribly out of date and not kept in sync neither
> > with the -help switch nor with the manual. Unfortunately upstream does
> > not cat about keeping them up to date.
> I have found in the past that the way to get INRIA people
> to act on a bug, even a minor spelling error in the documentation,
> is to make an entry in their BugTracker.
Isn't that the idea anyway, to forward upstream bugs to the appropriate
place?
> They do take these entries seriously, and state quite clearly
> that bugs reported in the main mailing list may or may not
> get fixed: bugs in the bug tracker are, in my experience,
> ALWAYS resolved. It may take time, and the resolution may
> be 'not a bug' or even 'spam' or whatever, but INRIA folks
> do actually use the bugtracker to schedule priorities.
> The point is to annoy them in their preferred way of being
> annoyed .. :)
Agreed.
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