On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 04:48:43PM +0200, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote: > Info pages (and man pages) are usually easier to find. Suppose I have > to use tool ``xyz`` then it is easy to type ``info xyz`` or ``man > xyz``. To find the HTML docs for it I have to find out which package > it is in and where this package placed the "non-standard" documentation > formats. Sorry, I didn't realize that someone is actually using the info files. I have rarely seen anything more badly designed than info pages and the tools to read them. The info viewer is a usability nightmare and comes close to dpkg, which is my all time favorite for the software with the worst user interface ever. There has already been a request to rename grc, because there is another application named grc in /usr/bin. Ok, I'm willing to accept, that publically visible executables should have unique names. But the idea that this is also true for accompanied info files makes me somewhat upset. cc65 comes with 35 info files, and more may follow. It is against all reason to require all info files world wide to have different names. This requirement was probably established by the same guys who invented the info file format and wrote the info viewer. At least this would explain it to me. Oliver has already offered to rename the file in question, so since there seem to be actual users, I would agree to do it. May it be cc65make.{sgml,info} or whatever. End of rant. Oliver, thanks for the offer! Uz -- Ullrich von Bassewitz uz@musoftware.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo@musoftware.de with the string "unsubscribe cc65" in the body(!) of the mail.Received on Mon Nov 8 19:00:24 2010
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