Mail Archives: geda-user/2012/10/27/20:57:11
Evan Foss wrote:
> If people are going to be typing let them type
> documentation.
Well, I did rewrite the documentation of the command line parameters
of pcb. At a hint of a developer here on the list, I moved the
information into the source and adapted a system that was already in
place for the documentation of actions. I submitted the changes in two
sets -- first a patch to the perl script that builds the
documentation. The submission was greeted by silence. No welcome, no
comments, no objections. When I pinged this list weeks later, the
patch was accepted. So I worked on the content and sent a second patch
set. Again, nothing. I pinged, still nothing. When I asked again,
IIRC, several weeks later, I was told by a developer, that he did not
like the way I adapted the perl file. I did it in a minimalistic way
that hooked into the processing of the action processing. He proposed
a "big" solution. However, by that time, my personal summer of code
was over and day job projects did not allow for extensive perl
learning session experiments.
Result:
1) The manual is still outdated. None of the options pcb happily tells
you about om "pcb -h" match, what the current version of the manual
says:
http://pcb.geda-project.org/pcb-cvs/pcb.html#Command_002dLine-Options
2) I decided to not engage myself again in ways that are at the mercy
of geda developers.
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Kai-Martin Knaak
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