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Re: man
- To: Marco dot Craveiro at solvay dot com
- Subject: Re: man
- From: "Martin v. Loewis" <martin at loewis dot home dot cs dot tu-berlin dot de>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 22:35:23 +0200
- CC: jason at cygnus dot com, libstdc++ at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <229D7C0FE0BED311A0E800805F0DD47139F51D@wn01ex.wn.gb.solvay.com>
> why do c++ users have to suffer so much more than c users?
I believe there is no on-line documentation because everybody has
sufficient printed documentation. For C++, there were always books
describing everything you would need to know, and independent from the
specific compiler. I believe you could have avoided all this analysis
of libg++ if you had used one of Stroustrup's books on C++. In
addition, there is also the standard now, which is available
electronically.
Of course, this is not meant as an excuse - just as an
explanation. And the GNU project would certainly appreciate free
documentation for the free libraries - it's just that somebody has to
write it. As for the format - as the author of the documentation, you
could chose whatever format you chose. man pages, texinfo, HTML,
DocBook would all be fine.
Regards,
Martin