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Re: preparing for 2.3b
From: |
Joel E. Denny |
Subject: |
Re: preparing for 2.3b |
Date: |
Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:41:14 -0500 (EST) |
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Wojciech Polak wrote:
> On 2008-02-17 at 18:31 -0500, Joel E. Denny wrote:
>
> > c. Finally, the XML output is completely undocumented in Bison except in
> > the command-line usage notes, and I've seen little user feedback. The
> > following patch removes mention of it from the command-line usage notes
> > for now.
>
> This way you won't get any more feedback from end-users.
> Only a few follow mailing lists.
True.
> I think the command-line switch
> should remain, just don't mention it in the NEWS if you think
> this is better and wait until a documentation is ready.
In my opinion, if it's not mentioned in NEWS, it shouldn't show up
mysteriously in --help. Both or neither.
> And by the way, I hope someone could help writing it.
> I'm not an English native speaker and I don't feel very
> comfortable about writing docs.
I'd help, but I've no time at the moment. Maybe if we mention --xml in
NEWS, someone might be apt to volunteer to help.
Paul, Akim, do you have any preference as the admins?