On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:06:37 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > GUI applications usually take only a few simple command-line options, > and more importantly, when you use a modern development framework, these > options will always be documented correctly with the --help switch.
Manpages can be used with/by debman, http://manpages.debian.net/, apropos, and probably a dozen other tools which don't know about any --help output. > For extra points, we could agree on a way to generate manual pages > automatically, either at installation time or on the fly, using > help2man. IMO these are not extra points but a necessary pre-requisite. And I believe it should happen at build time. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ -- GPG Key IDs: 0x8649AA06, 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, & developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of Free Software Foundation Europe `- BOFH excuse #205: Quantum dynamics are affecting the transistors
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