* Philip Hazel <ph10@???> [2006-05-19 09:25:26 +0100]:
> > > Well, a raw count from the spec reached 117 lines*, but
> > > 1. Some of those could be omitted as being things that one would never
> > > type successfully at the command line--they are used internally when Exim
> > > execs itself.
>
> The Exim man page is produced automatically from the Exim reference
> manual. I'm afraid I have neither the time nor the inclination to
> maintain the same information in two places. And sure as eggs are eggs
> they would get out of step. I suppose it might be possible to make the
> script more clever and get it to leave out certain stuff, but then there
> might (would?) be arguments about what should be included/excluded.
> ("You don't need -bd; nobody ever starts the daemon from the command
> line". "Oh yes, they do"...)
>
> I only produced a man page when people shouted loudly enough that there
> should be one; I don't personally think it's useful for something as
> complicated as Exim where (IMO) you need the full reference manual.
I certainly don't want to force you to include it in exim proper, but I
think it would be useful for myself and the Annvix OS which I'm
developing.
Out of curiousity, do you note anywhere (changelogs or whatever) when
new options are added or changed? Manually tracking changes isn't that
big of a deal for me, as long as there is somewhere to alert me as to
when those changes are made.
--
Annvix - Secure Linux Server:
http://annvix.org/
"lynx -source
http://linsec.ca/vdanen.asc | gpg --import"
{FEE30AD4 : 7F6C A60C 06C2 4811 FA1C A2BC 2EBC 5E32 FEE3 0AD4}
Wasting time like it was free...
