Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] ethereal AUTHORS ethereal.1 ethereal.c

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 14:02:37 -0500
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 01:35:13PM -0500, Laurent Deniel wrote:
> 
> 
> "Gilbert Ramirez Jr." wrote:
> >
> > Update of /usr/local/cvsroot/ethereal
> > In directory pow.zing.org:/tmp/cvs-serv18920
> >
> > Modified Files:
> >         AUTHORS ethereal.1 ethereal.c
> >
> > In directory pow.zing.org:/tmp/cvs-serv18920/doc
> >
> > Modified Files:
> >         ethereal.pod
> 
> 
> Why do we have to maintain two files for the manual page (.1 and .pod) ?

So that the end-user doesn't need perl (or rather, pod2man) installed in
order to install man pages.

But, if Richard's SMB-parser requires the user to have perl, then we
only have to maintain a .pod file. Well, I guess the user only needs
perl if they want to modify Richard's SMB text file. I think that the
fewer tools we require of the user for installation, the better.

--gilbert