On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 11:53:16AM -0600, Leland V. Lammert wrote:
> As a toolkit, OpenSSL can only be used *directly* by a programmer
> that knows C/C++, and in that case documentation is not required, as
> the programmer has the experience to use the toolkit directly.
As a programmer using OpenSSL, I have to say that this statement is false.
Certainly, I have the experience to read the OpenSSL source code and
understand what it is doing...and indeed, I have been doing this, because
the documentation on how to use the APIs is really very poor.
Documentation is ALWAYS a good thing.
I note that I, like the original sender, don't want to sound ungrateful
about this -- I'm delighted that OpenSSL exists. But the poor documentation
is a barrier to using it, and saying that it isn't is not the right
response.
> Would you complain that gcc does not have documentation?
Actually, gcc has quite good documentation.
- Damien
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