X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mailnull set sender to djgpp-workers-bounces using -f Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020310114213.02f41760@mail.dorsai.org> X-Sender: pjfarley AT mail DOT dorsai DOT org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 11:42:29 -0500 To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com From: "Peter J. Farley III" Subject: Re: Simpler restructured dir.txi Cc: CBFalconer Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com At 07:52 AM 3/10/02 -0500, CBFalconer wrote: >It certainly looks good to me. Too bad your reader spoils the >effect by wrapping lines (see above). Netscape doesn't wrap if >you paste as comments. <*Sigh*> I know. I've avoided Netscape mail in the past because I thought it could not send just plain text messages, that it always produced html/mime format. I'll check it out, thanks. >A few minor comments: > >In the misc section especially, some things belong under multiple >sub-classifications. There should be a section for file >compression, which should include bzip, and the executable >compressor (forget its name, bzh or something like that), not to >mention zip and unzip. Not a bad point. If there is more than one compression package that actually have info docs, I'll do that. >Is there a section for editors? If so, vim probably should >appear. Yes, under "Miscellaneous GNU utilities"/"Editing files". If vim has info docs, I'll put it there. >I like the references to packages, so that if the user doesn't >have the capability s/he/it immediately knows how to get it. OK, that's two votes (yours and Eli's) for package references. I can see the help they provide, especially for newbies. I won't complain about them any more. But if more GNU packages start using @dircategory/@direntry consistently, it will be more and more difficult to maintain dir.txi with this information, over time. I guess when that happens it will be time to address the status of dir.txi more directly. --------------------------------------------------------- Peter J. Farley III (pjfarley AT dorsai DOT org)