Should we keep the man pages?

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Mon Feb 9 09:50:49 CET 2009


In message <498FEDE4.7060108 at redpill-linpro.com>, Per Andreas Buer writes:
>Hi,
>
>There is a lot of confusion regarding the documentation. Some of it is
>in the wiki and some of it is in the manual. Some of it is missing - but
>as always, we're working on that. :-)
>
>Should we drop the man pages? Should we drop all of them or just "man
>vcl"? Dropping a man page would men we would incorporate the content
>into the wiki - maybe adding a few extra ACL's on the pages to restrict
>editing.

I think there should be a manpage for the executables, varnishd, varnishlog,
varnishstat etc.

But for documenting the overall workings and VCL in particular, manpages
suffer badly from the inability to include sensible illustrations.

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