On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 06:10:35PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
But I think in recent years the install-info problems have been fixed. Perhaps we don't need to do any of this anymore? Or perhaps finally getting to the canonical (FILENAME)NODE-WITHIN-FILE form we have finally arrived at the end and should stop there.
The real solution is to stop pretending that the info documentation is useful. We get a lot of bug reports about the man pages & help output, not so many about the info docs. It could be because the info docs are perfect, I suspect it's because they're rarely consulted. Sometimes we can point to the info doc and close a man page bug with a satisfied sense of "they should have read the documentation". But I'm just not sure that documentation that seems to exist solely to win a fight over whether behavior is documented is actually helpful. Maybe point people at https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/ ? Even better would be if it were interactive. E.g., the postgresql project has some really nice online docs per-version which allow people to add comments: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/interactive/index.html
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