Re: [Bug-gnupress] Some kind of TODO?

[Simon Law]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 12:23:42PM -0500, James A. Morrison wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 11:34, Simon Law wrote:
> > > >         I believe that Jim had grave concerns about the correctness of
> > > > the GCC manual.  But I don't quite recall what they were.  Perhaps he
> > > > could explain them.
> 
>  Actually I am more concerned about the fullness of the glibc manual,
> I know a lot of functions are not documented.

        Oof.  I know what you mean.  But that is a target approximately
5.5 months down the road.  Perhaps someone who has some free time could
get on the glibc mailing list and lurk for a while?

> > > Hmm. Last time I checked the manual was pretty up to date, at the
> > > dinner on saturday I mentioned that some new features in GCC 3.2/3.3
> > > have not been documented but Opus said there wasn't time for that
> > > kind of work on the manuals, just simple fixes.
> > 
> >     We've eaten about two weeks into the two month deadline.  I
> > expect that I'll be able to churn out galley proofs of the GCC 3.3
> > manual by the end of next week, if all goes well.
> > 
> >     This should give us sufficient time to determine if that manual
> > is good shape with the new reality of GCC:
> > http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.3/changes.html
> 
>  I believe the GCC manual is complete enough, it even has the 
> -no-integrated-cpp option documented.

        OK then.  Perhaps we can meet the deadline with plenty of time
to spare.

> > > probably not ;) Being fairly new to TeX I did a little reading then
> > > started butchering my system texinfo.tex.
> > 
> >     Ick.  I wouldn't want to have to hack texinfo.tex for every
> > manual we put out.
> 
>  sed/perl scripts might work instead ;)

        You're kidding...

Simon