On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 06:50:30PM +0200, Jonathan Thornburg wrote:
> So... what about providing a snapshot of the html docs (i.e. local
> html-docs tree) as part of the netpbm package? As it is, I (and anyone
> else who wants a local set of documentation) have to fumble around with
> each new OpenBSD version to get the right set of wget options to get a
> local copy of the netpbm web sit.
First, one would have to fetch the online documentation and provide
manually maintained distfiles on some server. True, we need this for
some ports, but it should be avoided if possible.
Second, don't you think that "nroff is more limiting than HTML"
attitude stated in doc/USERDOC of the netpbm sources is quite insane,
especilly given the fact that those fancy HTML documentation just
resembles the look of formatted manpages?
Third, to make even more clear how insane it is:
$ xwdtopnm -?
xwdtopnm: Use 'man xwdtopnm' for help.
So better try to talk to the author(s) of netpbm and convince them
to switch back to manpages (and optionally convert from nroff to
HTML using tools).
Ciao,
Kili
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