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Re: gdb.texinfo is getting too big
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Doug Evans <dje at google dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org, stan at codesourcery dot com
- Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 05:44:48 +0300
- Subject: Re: gdb.texinfo is getting too big
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- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 13:25:59 -0700
> From: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
> Cc: gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>, Stan Shebs <stan@codesourcery.com>
>
> Next question: Any strong preference for how?
> I suggested splitting up by chapter, and that's fine with me, but
> before I do all that work, IWBN to get pre-approval for at least the
> general idea.
> I count > 40.
> Is there a less granular split people want?
No, it's too fine-grained. 40 files is too much, IMO. It is better
to group several consecutive chapters into a single file.
> [Keeping the split mechanical, by something like chapter, is easy.
> Otherwise a discussion could drag on ...]
Well, you started it ;-)