Re: man pages out of date [was internal/external diff docs and usage]

>>>>> On 14 Mar 2003, the following spoke thusly:
>>>>> "Ben" == Ben Collins-Sussman
>>>>> "cmike" == cmpilato@collab.net
>>>>> "Rafael" == Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:

  Ben> Holy moly. Our man pages for svn and svnadmin are over 2000
  Ben> revisions old (7 months) old.
 
  Ben> Is the owner (or some other volunteer) willing to put some time
  Ben> into updating them?

  cmike> Ooh, ooh! And "please" make a man page for 'svnserve' and
  cmike> 'svnlook', too!

  Rafael> At some point in the past I suggested that the man pages
  Rafael> could be extracted and generated from the C sources that
  Rafael> contain the messages displayed by "svn{,admin} help". And
  Rafael> then I quickly forgot about it ;-) but I may be able to look
  Rafael> at this.

So, should I look at updating the static man pages now, or would it
be better to wait until Rafael has time to add the necessary code to
the C sources to automagically generate man pages at build time?

-- 
Seeya,
Paul
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