[openbeos] Re: Checkins
- From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 18:02:06 +0100
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> 1) Must work from the command line
http://clapcrest.free.fr/revol/beos/bebook
(I have a bman script as well)
:)
François.
PS. don't have any internet connection atm...
Selon Michael Phipps <mphipps1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Yes, the man pages are there.
> Actually, there is something of an opportunity for us, here...
> One of the places that BeOS, IMHO, fell flat on its face was the lack of man
>
> or something like it. Yes, I know I can build my own man (or download one)
> and go and get the appropos man pages and stick them somewhere and make it
> sort of work...
>
> And I would troutslap anyone who tells me that we should continue in that
> vein. :-) That is the Linux way. The BeOS way would be to have them all ready
>
> to roll in some convenient format.
>
> One choice is man. Another would be HTML. We could include Lynx or something.
>
> I am sure that there are other formats out there that could work, too, but I
>
> would bet that HTML is going to be a pretty good choice. The criteria, I
> think would be:
> 1) Must work from the command line
> 2) Format must be hyperlinkable
> 3) Must be *reasonably* compact in format
> 4) Viewer can not be enormous
> 5) A GUI app would be nice. HTML might make sense, here, because they could
> be an additional directory to the OpenBeOS Book
>
> In any case... The GNU manpages are a good starting point (at least) for GNU
>
> apps. But there are a whole bunch of BeOS specific apps that we need
> documentation for, too. So there are lots of opportunities for writers.
>
> I guess I would advise anyone who wants to undertake that sort of a journey
> to work in HTML. It is pretty easily parsible and we can convert it to
> whatever final format we choose (if it isn't HTML, which I would lean
> toward).
>
> Michael
>
> On 2004-03-02 at 03:54:35 [-0500], Olivier MILLA wrote:
> >
> > On 2004-06-02 at 04:09:43 [+0200], you wrote:
> > > I have completed the first phase of checking in some GNU tools. I
> announced
> > > this on the CVS mailing list last night and warned people that it was
> coming
> > > so as not to overwhelm their mailboxes.
> > >
> > > Basically, I checked in coreutils, diff, grep, less, and shar. coreutils
>
> is
> > > what used to be fileutils, shutils and textutils.
> > >
> > > So these checkins will corrospond to ... oh, a couple of dozen new shell
> > > commands. There is more to be checked in - these are the packages that
> have
> > > been updated since Be made R5. For those that haven't, I will just make
> > > Jamfiles and check those in. Look for those in a few days. :-)
> >
> > Hello,
> > good thing to have uploaded them. Did the man pages folow ? Is it
> > possible ? That would be great. ;o]
> >
> > Olivier
>
>
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