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From: Sean Dague <sean@dague.net>
To: mark.williamson@cl.cam.ac.uk
Cc: Daniel Stekloff <dsteklof@us.ibm.com>,
	Xen Mailing List <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
	ewan@xensource.com, Sean Dague <japh@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add Initial Man Pages for xm and xmdomain.cfg
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 15:08:20 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051029190820.GA22305@underhill.no-ip.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Prayer.1.0.16.0510291729430.1046@hermes-1.csi.cam.ac.uk>


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On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 05:29:43PM +0100, M.A. Williamson wrote:
> It's good to see man pages appearing for other tools!
> 
> I'd still suggest considering a script for generating the command help 
> though: e.g. have a "skeleton" man page but use a script (maybe just a 
> shell script) to allow quick regeneration of the command descriptions (by 
> just running xm help over everything and formatting the results).
> 
> We can still check a pre-generated manpage into hg and ship it readymade; 
> it's just that relying on developers to update the documentation tends not 
> to work ;-)

I still disagree. :)

If we get this man page stub into the Xen tree, I'll start working on it
again.  My lack of motivation for this has been not having it there.  This
is something easy to do in 10-20 minute bites between (or during) meetings.
;)

	-Sean

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-29 19:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-29  1:34 [PATCH] Add Initial Man Pages for xm and xmdomain.cfg Daniel Stekloff
2005-10-29 16:29 ` M.A. Williamson
2005-10-29 19:08   ` Sean Dague [this message]
2005-10-29 19:13     ` M.A. Williamson
2005-10-29 20:31       ` Xen3.0 + Fedora core 4 shino korah
2005-10-29 21:54       ` [PATCH] Add Initial Man Pages for xm and xmdomain.cfg Daniel Stekloff
2005-10-30  1:38         ` Mark Williamson

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