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Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die


From: Eric S. Raymond
Subject: Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 12:55:04 -0500
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>:
> Until more people start contributing to the docs, it makes very little
> sense to me to change the tools, and by that cut the branch on which
> we sit, documentation-wise.

You have this exactly backwards.  Texinfo/info are a barrier that impedes
more recruitment of hands to work on documentation.  This is one of the
reasons they must die.
-- 
                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>



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