On 09/04/2014 11:40 PM, John Calcote wrote:
If you're looking for a tutorial that walks you through the small set of
tasks that you personally need to perform, you're unlikely to find one
unless you write it.
As I see it, this is a clear indicator that the manual is sub-par and
doesn't fulfill its purpose.
> This is just common sense.
And this is why this is still a problem.
> While there are many task-specific tutorials out there, the fact is,
the Autotools are a general set of build tools designed to handle a
million permutations of build requirements. The manuals are necessarily
complete and generic.
I agree, but that doesn't justify why it fails to cover those
task-specific topics that everyone is looking and has to either write it
themselves or go look elsewhere.
In fact, I don't understand how you can at the same time acknowledge
that people are forced to look elsewhere for information that should be
available in the doc, and still don't understand that's a major problem
with the manual.
--
Zé
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