Some notes on the Wiki

[chris jefferson]

Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:

>Daniel Berlin <dberlin@dberlin.org> writes:
>
>| On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Nicholas Nethercote wrote:
>| 
>| > On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Daniel Berlin wrote:
>| >
>| >>> Also, a web-browser is much slower than an info-browser,
>| >>> especially when doing searchs.
>| >> You must be close to the only user i've met who uses the info
>| >> browser :)
>| >
>| > I use it.  Info pages suck in many ways, but they're fast to load
>| > from an xterm, fast to search, and even faster when you know where
>| > they are in the docs (eg. I find myself looking at the GCC C
>| > extensions quite often, and I can get there very quickly).
>| 
>| Most people i've met can't undertand the commands for info (pinfo is
>| nicer in this regard).
>
>maybe the conclusion to draw is that you've met some special people in
>a small part of the community.
>
>  
>
I just had a quick quiz in the C++ IRC channel I was in, and very few
people there like info, and very few are comfortable using it. There was
a general agreement HTML, PDF and docbook are the best ways to recieve
documentation.

Chris