On Sunday 10 July 2005 20:43, Richard Kenner wrote: > This happens because > 1. People don't want to write texinfo, > > People don't like to write comments either, but I don't think most people > would suggest we stop requiring comments. > > The documentation style of the GNU project is texinfo and that choice > was made for sound reasons, which continue to be valid.
And people writing things on the Wiki have made a choice for equally sound reasons. Just to name two reasons: 1) they can do 1000 lines of documentation work on the Wiki now, as in right here right now; or go through months of patch nit-picking a 12 line patch and work incrementally. 2) they don't have to write a copyright assignment and go through other barriers. Personally I strongly prefer working on the wiki over working on the GCC manual for internals stuff. Gr. Steven
