Re: [OFFTOPIC] Info files vs Man pages

[Carlo Wood <carlo at runaway dot xs4all dot nl>]

| I do not think the man pages are currently generated from the info
| files.  That would certainly be a better way to handle them.
| 
| I never use the info pages either, though I'm not all that hot on the
| idea of yet another configure option to deal with this kind of issue.
| 
| Thoughts from the rest of this list on adding a new configure time
| option to disable installation of the info files?
| 
| jeff

info files are a pain in the ass :).  They are the "official" choice
for the format of a manual of a GNU package I understood, but its
very hard to use and I always find myself using `grep' on the raw
info files :/.

I don't think that disabling the installation of the files is the
a solution however.  Maybe a new tool to read the info files would
make it more interesting to use them.

Personally I think that a html version of docs is certainly a
*better* choice then the "info" file format.  What would be the
correct way to get html-ized docs the prefered format for GNU
packages?  Is it an option to start to include the egcs docs
as html?

-- 
 Carlo Wood  <carlo@runaway.xs4all.nl>