NewHelpSystem & man pages

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Apr 11, 2009, at 08:36, C. Florian Ebeling wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 10:42 PM, Rainer Müller wrote:
>
>> For everyone who did not notice yet what this is about, I  
>> documented my
>> plans about a new help system based on AsciiDoc at
>> <http://trac.macports.org/wiki/NewHelpSystem>.
>
> Really good to see an initiative to shape in the doc area! The current
> state of affairs was not really satisfying. Mark has probably good
> reasons why he couldn't bring in more time, but we shouldn't stay in
> write-lock mode for too long on that.
>
> Do I get it correct that the guide will be maintained separately for
> now, after the new help system plan?

I didn't get the impression that Rainer's plan in any way affected  
the current Guide, only the manpages.

If Rainer's effort with new manpages using asciidoc is successful, we  
could of course discuss the idea of migrating the Guide over to that  
format as well.