On Wed Feb 27 17:02:03 2013, guent...@gmail.com (Philip Guenther) wrote:
> IMO, the suggestion that was proposed would reduce the overall
> usability of the manual and increase the confusion. I seen it tried
> in multiple ways** in other open source projects (and at my day job)
> and the results
On Wed Feb 27 14:07:42 2013, guent...@gmail.com (Philip Guenther) wrote:
> Meanwhile, other people complain that the docs are too long; adding
> "this feature was added in 3.8x" throughout the guide just makes it
> longer and harder to read. It's not a costless addition.
I completely disagree. L
On Wed, 2013-02-27 at 19:04 -0800, David Boyce wrote:
> I think you and the others in the "nay" camp may be being a bit
> unfair. As far as I can see, nobody has proposed (in this thread) that
> the entire manual be reworked to note the version in which each
> feature appeared. You're absolutely
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Philip Guenther wrote:
> Side note: I should make clear that I am not committer to GNU make and
> do not speak for the project. I'm just a contributer to the lists,
> answering questions where I can.
>
Likewise.
> IMO, the suggestion that was proposed would re
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Sebastian Pipping
wrote:
> Paul and Philipp,
Side note: I should make clear that I am not committer to GNU make and
do not speak for the project. I'm just a contributer to the lists,
answering questions where I can.
> Daniel has a valid point here. You could b
On Wed, 2013-02-27 at 13:56 -0800, Daniel Wagenaar wrote:
> I appreciate your correction, but I still feel that the documentation
> on the website would be more helpful if it at least mentioned that
> older versions of make fail quietly when there is a "=" at the end of
> the line.
GNU make has be
On 02/27/2013 02:07 PM, Philip Guenther wrote:
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Daniel Wagenaar wrote:
I appreciate your correction, but I still feel that the documentation on the
website would be more helpful if it at least mentioned that older versions
of make fail quietly when there is a "="
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Daniel Wagenaar wrote:
> I appreciate your correction, but I still feel that the documentation on the
> website would be more helpful if it at least mentioned that older versions
> of make fail quietly when there is a "=" at the end of the line. The reason
> is tha
On 02/27/2013 11:30 AM, Philip Guenther wrote:
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Daniel Wagenaar
wrote:
The example for the "eval" function in the documentation at
http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Eval-Function.html contains
a syntax error that causes the example to fail quiet
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Daniel Wagenaar
wrote:
> The example for the "eval" function in the documentation at
> http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Eval-Function.html contains
> a syntax error that causes the example to fail quietly. The problem is in the
> line
>
> def
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