gperf switch

[Gerald Pfeifer]

Sorry for the late reply, though I hope there's some useful information
nevertheless...

Donn Terry <donn@verinet.com> wrote:
> Having just gone through that same pain yesterday, I can sympathise.
> There are two (at least) problem links on the egcs.cygnus.com webpage:
> 1) The link to the ftp site is not marked as a link, and as such when a
>     new participant is looking for clues, it's not very obvious.

Which link to you mean? Ideally, I guess, people should not be required
to ``surf'' our ftp server, but find all required information on the web
site with handy links.


With regard to your problem, I have updated a FAQ entry by explictely
mentioning the egcs_update script. Would that have helped you with your
problem?

http://egcs.cygnus.com/faq.html#generated_files


Plus, Bret McGuire, has contributed a patch which adds a new FAQ entry
concerning gperf.

http://egcs.cygnus.com/faq.html#gperf


> 2) There doesn't appear to be any link at all to the "install"
> discussion, which I found via a backdoor thru the cygnus site search
> engine.

I was going to add that today (actually had planned that for weeks), but
Jeff Law was faster... ;-)


> I'll also note that several important topics are buried as press
> releases, rather than having a "look here" entry (both the status and
> preliminary performance web pages are that way).

I added the testsuite and benchmark result pages very prominently to the
third paragraph of our main page some time ago.


> P.S.  Take this as a suggestion to the truly kind and benevolent
> person (whose name I have lost) who volunteered to maintain the web
> pages.

Thanks! ;-)  This kind of feedback is really helpful.

If you have any further remarks, please let us know. And clearly, also
patches to these web pages are highly welcome!

Gerald
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Gerald Pfeifer (Jerry)      Vienna University of Technology
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