Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 10/24/2012 09:54 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: >> Sounds good. I.e., it sounds like we want Stefano's patch, after all. >> >> As you recall, a nice side effect is that we will >> no longer distribute the generated man/*.1 files. > > Well if we don't distribute the .1 files, > wouldn't perl would be a hard requirement?
Oh, you're right. Oh well... > It might be better to insert a warning like: > "warning perl unavailable: this manpage may be out of date" > at the bottom of man pages but only for source files That sounds good, being careful to insert it only once per file.