On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Reuben Thomas <r...@sc3d.org> wrote: > On 14 August 2010 16:46, Reuben Thomas <r...@sc3d.org> wrote: >> On 4 August 2010 09:54, James Youngman <j...@gnu.org> wrote:
>>> I'm not sure the two options need to be exclusive. >> >> Fair enough, especially as it's machine generated, so the maintenance >> problem I imagined is non-existent. >> >>> In any case, the current documentation is machine-generated by a C >>> program in findutils. You might want to download it; this should >>> help you get some more specific ideas about what you propose to >>> change. >> >> gnulib people: you seem to be unhappy with code-generated >> documentation. How would you like to proceed? > [...] > It seems that if James wants to keep the machine-generated English, > then gnulib won't want to host the documentation. On the other hand, > if he doesn't mind getting rid of it, I'm happy to see the proposed replacement and then make the choice about the switch. I wouldn't be terribly keen on options that increase my manual effort either though. Manually reconciling doc changes with another package is a bit of a pain. Having it happen automatically (via for example gnulib-tool) seems preferable to me. James.
