Re: [info] grub2
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote:
> Paul E Condon wrote:
>> Tom H wrote:
>> > Paul E Condon wrote:
>> > > Tom H wrote:
>> > >> Camaleón wrote:
>> > >> >> This is the same url as the previous (grub1) manual, so as far as gnu is
>> > >> >> concerned, there must only be one grub...
>> > >> >
>> > >> > How bad! :-(
>
> They have moved on. It doesn't benefit the upstream to keep two
> versions active. For better or for worse this is mostly how all
> upstreams work.
>
>> > >> > There are still people using Grub legacy and online manual is very useful
>> > >> > (i.e., for pointing someone to a specific paragraph or give it a quick
>> > >> > review).
>
> True. But you can always quote the parts to which you are referring.
>
>> > The first has the following at the top:
>> > 'You can browse the documentation of GNU GRUB by "info grub" on your
>> > shell prompt (or use your favorite Info browser, if you don't like
>> > info).'
>> >
>> > Strange decision...
>
> Why is that strange? The official documentation for GNU projects is
> texinfo documentation. It has been this way for a very long time.
It is strange because it would have been easy and wold not have been
taxing to have a
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grublegacy.html
page for those people who need to consult or refer others to
grub-legacy's manual online.
Furthermore, many distributions default to grub1, Debian Stable,
Fedora, RHEL and its clones (in the latter case, probably until 2014
for RHEL 5 and, since RHEL 6 is based on F12/F13, probably until 2017
for RHEL 6).
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