The Guide - again

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Sat Mar 7 12:42:25 PST 2009


Rainer Müller wrote:
> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> I do not believe that we need to separate these into different  
>> documents because there is overlap between these different peoples'  
>> needs. We could do a better job of indicating which sections are for  
>> which audience, or rearranging sections in the guide to group things  
>> by audience.
> 
> I don't like the fact that the guide is one huge document. We discussed
> splitting the guide into single pages ('chunked' in docbook terms)
> before, but the majority was against it. In my opinion it would at least
> make sense to split the guide into pages each of them relevant for
> users, maintainers, base hackers.

It does exist at <http://guide.macports.org/chunked/>. A decision on
whether to change the default was postponed, IIRC.

- Josh


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