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Re: gdb.texinfo is getting too big


On 10/14/13 7:44 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> 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.

I'm inclined to the chapter division - it seems to work well enough for
GCC, and it makes it easier to rearrange chapters in the main manual,
or do subsets, such as a "User's Manual", "Scripter's Manual",
and the like.

Stan
stan@codesourcery.com



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