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info schminfoinfo schminfoPosted Feb 22, 2007 7:13 UTC (Thu) by ldo (subscriber, #40946)In reply to: they should just bite the bullet. by ofeeley Parent article: Fedora 7 release delayed
info is crap. Whatever won't fit into a man page, put into HTML. It's so much easier to read, navigate, search, publish on the Web etc.
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info schminfo Posted Feb 22, 2007 15:26 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] Your mileage definitely varies here. (e.g. how easy is it to regexp search a subtree of web pages? Essentially impossible without a lot of extra infrastructure, that's how easy.)
info schminfo Posted Mar 1, 2007 3:53 UTC (Thu) by roelofs (subscriber, #2599) [Link] Your mileage definitely varies here. (e.g. how easy is it to regexp search a subtree of web pages? Essentially impossible without a lot of extra infrastructure, that's how easy.)But that's just extra UI fluff. (I'm not saying it's not useful UI fluff...) Is there any particularly good reason at this point why the underlying file format couldn't be HTML (or XHTML)? The info client could still behave as you like, including multi-page regex grep. Meanwhile, those of us who favor portability could use a standard web browser as the client. Greg
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