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

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From: Laurent Deniel <deniel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 21:50:01 +0200
Gilbert Ramirez wrote:
> 
> >
> > 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.
> 

But in this case, why not maintaining only the .1 (text and html
can be generated from nroff) ?

Or maybe better, there is no need to archive the .1 file in CVS but 
we have only to generate it from the .pod file when a official version 
is released ...

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