Opened 22 years ago

Last modified 15 years ago

#160 closed enhancement

[RFE] man pages to go along with fine command line utilities — at Version 4

Reported by: pbaker@… Owned by: sdlime
Priority: high Milestone:
Component: Documentation - MapServer Version: 4.1
Severity: minor Keywords:
Cc: dmorissette, tomkralidis, warmerdam

Description (last modified by sdlime) 

I'm working on packaging MapServer for Debian. Debian Policy requires that all
packaged binaries installed in /usr/bin (where I'm installing the command line
utilities in my mapserver-utils package) must have an accompanying manpage of
some kind. Is anyone in upstream willing to write these for me, or will I have
to make something up on my own?

See http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html#s13.1

Change History (4)

comment:1 by dmorissette, 21 years ago

Component: Command Line Utilties → MapServer Documentation
Version: 3.6 → 4.1 
Paul, perhaps you should raise this issue on the mapserver-docs list (not sure 
how much response you would get though).

Let's keep this as a wishlist item for 4.1.

comment:2 by dmorissette, 21 years ago

Cc: morissette@… added

comment:3 by tomkralidis, 17 years ago

Cc: dmorissette tomkralidis added

We would have to create man pages, as well as a make target to install these and the command line tools, etc. into /usr/local or --prefix sort of thing. Is this still desirable?

comment:4 by sdlime, 17 years ago

Description: modified (diff)

Looks like GDAL uses Doxygen for its command-line programs. Perhaps we could emulate that approach?

Steve

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