Thread: man pages on win32
Hi! Does anybody see any reason at all to install the man pages on win32? Considering there is no man reader... //Magnus
I'm normally a lurker here but as I've not seen anyone else respond I thought I'd give my opinion. I would install the man pages on win32. They are a nice form of documentation for those of us that come from the Unix world. Isn't there a man reader in Cygwin? I know the native port will not need Cygwin, but many people will already have it, especially those that know about man pages. Just my two cents. Kevin. Magnus Hagander wrote: > Hi! > > Does anybody see any reason at all to install the man pages on win32? > Considering there is no man reader... > > //Magnus > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your > joining column's datatypes do not match >
Hello, If we were to do it right, the man pages would be converted to Windows help files. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake Kevin HaleBoyes wrote: > I'm normally a lurker here but as I've not seen anyone else > respond I thought I'd give my opinion. > > I would install the man pages on win32. They are a nice form > of documentation for those of us that come from the Unix world. > Isn't there a man reader in Cygwin? I know the native port will > not need Cygwin, but many people will already have it, especially > those that know about man pages. > > Just my two cents. > Kevin. > > > Magnus Hagander wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> Does anybody see any reason at all to install the man pages on win32? >> Considering there is no man reader... >> >> //Magnus >> >> >> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- >> TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if >> your >> joining column's datatypes do not match >> > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html
I should've mentioned - the HTML pages should definitly go in, and we should probably do a CHM file as well (windows help file). pgadmin has one of the postgres docs, so we could probably adapt that one. //Magnus >-----Original Message----- >From: Joshua D. Drake [mailto:jd@commandprompt.com] >Sent: den 4 maj 2004 18:40 >To: Kevin HaleBoyes >Cc: PostgreSQL Win32 port list >Subject: Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] man pages on win32 > > >Hello, > >If we were to do it right, the man pages would be converted to Windows >help files. > >Sincerely, > >Joshua D. Drake > > >Kevin HaleBoyes wrote: >> I'm normally a lurker here but as I've not seen anyone else >> respond I thought I'd give my opinion. >> >> I would install the man pages on win32. They are a nice form >> of documentation for those of us that come from the Unix world. >> Isn't there a man reader in Cygwin? I know the native port will >> not need Cygwin, but many people will already have it, especially >> those that know about man pages. >> >> Just my two cents. >> Kevin. >> >> >> Magnus Hagander wrote: >> >>> Hi! >>> >>> Does anybody see any reason at all to install the man pages >on win32? >>> Considering there is no man reader... >>> >>> //Magnus >>> >>> >>> ---------------------------(end of >broadcast)--------------------------- >>> TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an >index scan if >>> your >>> joining column's datatypes do not match >>> >> >> ---------------------------(end of >broadcast)--------------------------- >> TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? >> >> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html > >---------------------------(end of >broadcast)--------------------------- >TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index >scan if your > joining column's datatypes do not match >
It's rumoured that Magnus Hagander once said: > I should've mentioned - the HTML pages should definitly go in, and we > should probably do a CHM file as well (windows help file). pgadmin has > one of the postgres docs, so we could probably adapt that one. Theres no point including the html pages *and* the chm - the latter contains 100% of the former. Regards, Dave
>> I should've mentioned - the HTML pages should definitly go in, and we >> should probably do a CHM file as well (windows help file). >pgadmin has >> one of the postgres docs, so we could probably adapt that one. > >Theres no point including the html pages *and* the chm - the latter >contains 100% of the former. >Regards, Dave Assuming everything is there, normally not much point, correct. If you want to index it with index server or similar for quick searching. But I guess if you're that advanced, you can get a separate tarball. Wouldn't want to make the installation too large/complicated, yes. //Magnus