Our FAQ (was: Patch for old FAQ links)

[Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>]

[ gcc-patches -> gcc ]

On Sun, 24 Dec 2000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> Is there any sign that the FOM has been of any use - that any users have
> contributed useful information to it (rather than simply dumping a badly
> phrased question, or an empty item, at a random point in the FOM, as if in
> hope for an answer) - justifying the loss of ability for people with CVS
> write access to do general reorganisation, cleanup, etc., or for anyone to
> submit patches to do the same, where this goes beyond what a generic FOM
> account allows?

Dunno.  There have been some contributions, but I doubt that the benefit
outweighs the ``cost''.

> Any FAQ reorganisation probably needs some design (do we keep the FOM,
> what questions go on separate pages, what goes in the GCC manual proper,
> what directory structure is used for FAQs, etc.) before hasty
> implementation.

Well, so let's do this know! ;-)

Gerald
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