linux-kernel - Re: Documentation files in html format?

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Date:	Thu, 09 Aug 2007 16:37:26 +0200
From:	Rene Herman <rene.herman@...il.com>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
CC:	Hans-Jürgen Koch <hjk@...utronix.de>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Documentation files in html format?

On 08/09/2007 05:26 PM, Andi Kleen wrote:

> In my experience it tends to be challenging to actually find all the packages
> needed for that. And then it's incredibly slow -- seems to be much slower
> than gcc which is somewhat of an archivement. And at least for LinuxDoc TeX usually 
> can't even compile the result.
> 
> I would say the track record of existing DocBook deployment is not good enough
> to justify further use. Plain html can be converted into all these
> formats easily too and overall it makes a much nicer user experience.
> 
> Also I would expect much more people will know how to write html versus
> DocBook.

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Rene.
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