Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 30 May 2009 19:23:05 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [tip:perfcounters/core] perf_counter tools: Generate per command manpages (and pdf/html, etc.) |
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* Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> wrote:
> > > > Import Git's nice .txt => {man/html/pdf} generation machinery. > > > > The .txt files were already present, so the patch is largely the > > infrastructure patch. The fixes to .txt files were minimal. > > We do not copy Git's .txt => {man/html/pdf} support only to > support perfcounters. > > Either perfcounters use the infrastructure already present or it > establish a parallel infrastrucutre we can start to migrate over > to. > > In an area where there is so little interest shown as in > documentation generation we do not want to have two different ways > to generate man pages, html etc. > > IMO the ascii doc support from git is superior to what we have > today so I am all for replacing the current stuff. But then we > should do is properly and not as some perfconuter only stuff.
I still think you are misunderstanding it. It is a user-space tool(-set) with its own needs to install manpages and other documentation. Look at the code.
Ingo
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