cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Re: AST busybox ... / was: Re: [ast-developers] Patch for seamless grep.c integration into libcmd --------
> Well... I have plans for that... but I need to probe carefully whether > you and Glenn like the idea (which is basically to use DocBook/XML as > "master source" for all manpage/getopts stuff and build the > _ast_getopts strings at build time... with options for full coverage > (the default), reduced builtin documentation or only the minimal set > for short and long options (the advantage would be that DocBook/XML is > an industry standard which would _VASTLY_ simplify many things... > including promo material generation and the translation of the > manpages (there have been significant complains from the > Sun^H^H^HOracle documentation folks because they were not able to > handle the situation (e.g. "alien" tools, non-standard procedures and > no clue how to handle that even after many explanations) ... instead > they dumped the output of somebuiltin --html and translated that and > leaving the other options etc. untranslated))). > > If the translation is reversable it is a good idea. I should be able to edit the getopts string, and then have DocBook/XML updated as well as update DocBook/XML and have getopts strings updated. David Korn [email protected] _______________________________________________ ast-developers mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-developers
