Re: where to put manpages (filename clash issue)
On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 03:22:44PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> The problem does not exist for HTML docs since they will be installed in
> different directories on the file system, while manpages share the
> /usr/share/man/*/ hierarchy.
>
> Since I've no good ideas on how to solve this I'm currently inclined to
> not push for manpage documentation of OCaml modules.
I agree. I don't find man pages very useful for APIs -- I just keep a
browser tab open for each module whose API I need. My main wish would
be for an API index page that each -dev package is linked from. Right
now, I have to navigate to file:///usr/share/doc/libfoo-ocaml-dev/...
by hand.
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Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u
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