Subject: Re: Another Manual ???
To: Paul Hoffman <phoffman@proper.com>
From: Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 01/22/2000 21:56:44
On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Paul Hoffman wrote:

> I second that. I'll go further to say that POD should be used for 
> generating the book and man pages for the project. It's so damn simple to 
> use, and you can read raw POD files easier than any other input format. The 
> person compiling the book has to have Perl on their system....

Not to mention that perl would also be required to build the system. I
can't say I'm particularly keen on that.

I'd actually prefer to go with an XML-based system of some sort.

cjs
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