According to Hans-Peter Nilsson:
> > Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 13:26:20 -0400
> > From: Geoff Hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > In your opinion is this a "must fix" for 3.1.0 or do we release and deal
> > with it later?
>
> It definitely needs fixing *somewhere*. At this point it seems
> easier to fix the code than fixing the documentation, which
> would be the other choice. Fixing the docs would leave the
> field open for anticipated uninformed questions about "why it
> was disabled for 3.1.0, when the docs say it worked for
> 3.<earlier>". So I don't think fixing the docs would be TRT
> even given the urgency of the release.
I don't find anything in the docs that claim htdig supports PostScript, so
I don't know what there would be to fix in the docs. Are you considering
the mailing list archives as part of the docs? If so, there's not much
we can do about that - if someone on the list mistakenly claimed that
PostScript support works, that doesn't mean we have to make it work
before releasing.
It's true that the presence of a Postscript.cc can lead users to assume
it works. I did, and didn't realise it doesn't work until you pointed it
out. However, given the underwhelming demand for it in the past two years,
it's hardly a show stopper.
> I've enabled it for my latest EGCS indexing and will check if
> it works sanely (except for the presence of munged words).
> If it does, I think it is best to have it enabled, and guard the
> cout:s with "if (debug >= 2)". I'll do that, unless told
> otherwise. If not, I'll guess we need to put notes in the docs.
If you can quickly get something that works reasonably well, I have no
problem with including it in this release. (Geoff may beg to differ, if
he wants to release tonight.) In any case, a note in the documentation
describing its limitations would be a very good idea.
Since I mentioned the mailing list archives above, it reminds me. Could
we change htdoc/ma_menu.html to use fully-qualified URLs for the links to
the archives, so they work even when reading the docs on another system?
Here's the patch:
--- ./htdoc/ma_menu.html.local Thu Jan 28 20:40:00 1999
+++ ./htdoc/ma_menu.html Tue Feb 9 14:49:43 1999
@@ -17,44 +17,44 @@
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