On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 13:09 -0700, Robert Thorpe wrote: > > I believe the Wiki is an invaluable documentation tool, precisely > > because it allows such an unencumbered contribution process. > > > > I agree. I wasn't suggesting that the Wiki has no value, but rather > > that it's not a substitute for the more formal documentation. Were it > > not for copyright issues, one could view the Wiki as an ongoing draft > > process for the documentation. > > A comment from a user... > > Please, please, please don't move GCC internals documentation to a Wiki. > Nobody has suggested that we wouldn't ship docs.
> Even to users the internals documentation is useful. It's useful when trying > to find out why GCC is doing the things it does with the code given to it, it > indicates where to look to find things in the source. > This would be much harder if it were a wiki, in particular finding > information on the version of GCC you're using would be much more difficult. However, this isn't true. The wiki stores every version of a page. We could make sure we know what versions of the wiki pages refer to what releases, and link them accordingly. > > Also, a web-browser is much slower than an info-browser, especially when > doing searchs. You must be close to the only user i've met who uses the info browser :) > > > >
