Re: [HACKERS] Merging old man pages

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>
Cc: Postgres Documentation List <docs(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>, Postgres Hackers List <hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Merging old man pages
Date: 1999-07-17 17:22:01
Message-ID: 20015.932232121@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu> writes:
> We've now got a viable mechanism for generating man pages from sgml
> sources.

Excellent!

> From here on, there is no need to update the src/man/ man pages when
> updating docs. Please do all updates in doc/src/sgml/{.,/ref}/*.sgml.
> I'll be removing the old man pages from the cvs tree,

OK, let me get this straight: man pages will no longer be in the CVS
tree because they will no longer be original files, but they will be
part of the standard distribution as derived files, right?

regards, tom lane

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