Re: ghc-4.06-1.src.rpm (was: ghc to be dropped from potato (debian)

[Reuben Thomas]

On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Peter Hancock wrote:

> says that the project has been suspended.)  I suppose the problem here
> is that the ghc people (laudably, sensibly, etc, ..) want a doc package
> that makes rtf as well as the usual unix doc formats.

It was more that we wanted a package that was easy to install and
use. Personally, I've never managed to get jade to work by using it
directly. It's hard to compile, the catalog is hard to configure, and the
command line options are hard to work out as the whole thing is documented
in SGML-ese rather than UNIX-ese.

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