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Re: [HACKERS] Contrib modules documentation online

  • From: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
  • To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
  • Cc: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Albert Cervera i Areny <albert(at)nan-tic(dot)com>, pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org
  • Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Contrib modules documentation online
  • Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 11:18:44 -0700
  • Message-id: <1188411524.32003.6.camel@dell.linuxdev.us.dell.com> <text/plain>
On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 13:53 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Why wouldn't we just remove the README files altogether?  I can't
> see maintaining duplicate sets of documentation.

I agree that duplication is bad, but I think README files in the
individual contrib directories is useful and worth keeping: if I'm about
to install a contrib module and want to learn how to install and use it,
this change would only make that information *more* difficult to find.

I wonder if it would be possible to keep the master version of the
contrib docs as SGML, and generate plaintext READMEs from it during the
documentation build.

-Neil
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