Subject: Re: [libssh2] Documentation method

Re: [libssh2] Documentation method

From: James Housley <jim_at_thehousleys.net>
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 17:34:32 -0400

On Jun 10, 2007, at 4:15 PM, Daniel Stenberg wrote:

> On Sun, 10 Jun 2007, James Housley wrote:
>
>> There has been many changes to the code that needs to be
>> documented. I see
>> in the repository libssh2-doc, which is XML based DocBook. This
>> looks like
>> it might be what is driving the Wiki pages, but not sure. Daniel
>> started a
>> docs directory in with the source, which is much easier to have
>> installed
>> with libssh2 on Un*x systems and is capable of producing web pages
>> (FreeBSD
>> and Linux and others do).
>>
>> The question is how to proceed from here?
>
> I want the docs to be:
>
> 1 - included in the release tarballs
>
> 2 - added to CVS
>
> 3 - installed as man pages on 'make install'
>
> 4 - Possibly as a bonus, available as HTML and PDF versions
>
> In the curl project we've accomplished all this by simply writing
> the docs in
> the nroff (man page) format and generating HTML and PDF from those.
> It has
> worked fine and that's why I took that route. I'm not emotionally
> attached to
> it so if someone feels strongly for another approach that works,
> then I'll
> certainly be open for it.

I agree to, and like the nroff format. I will probably use -mdoc
instead of -man, but I will play with that some. We just need to get
help to get the new docs on the website.

Jim

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