[Nix-dev] Missing documentation

Roger Qiu roger.qiu at polycademy.com
Thu Feb 19 01:07:52 CET 2015


Yes, I think this would be very helpful.
On 19/02/2015 10:17 AM, "Ertugrul Söylemez" <ertesx at gmx.de> wrote:

> > What I want to say is that it might be boring to maintain such a
> > comprehensive help system, but it’s totally worth it, and it’s
> > wonderful that someone volounteers to do that. BTW it would be nice to
> > have a generic framework for writing docs and then doing things like
> > generating man-pages and context-sensitive help automatically. Maybe
> > such a framework already exists?
>
> That's what I want to do, but I'm still not sure whether the community
> is behind me.  I don't want to spend days to develop a nice solution
> just to find that nobody actually wants it.
>
> I did not count formally, but so far my proposal was met with mixed
> feelings.  If there is a definite, "stop talking, please just do it",
> then I will do it.  My changes would include minor documentation
> improvements, but most notably a context-sensitive help system that is
> easy to use especially for Nix developers.
>
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