Re: dar man page and -aa feature

Wiebe Cazemier wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 March 2007 22:25, Denis Corbin wrote:
> 
> 
>>Wiebe Cazemier wrote:
>>
>>>Hey,
>>
>>Hello,
>>
>>
>>>A while ago, you agreed with me to switch the default behaviour of dar from
>>>-ac (--alter=ctime) to -aa (--alter=atime). I just installed dar 2.3.3 and I
>>>noticed -ac is still the default behaviour. I thought it was already
>>>implemented. Can you shed some light on this?
>>
>>Sure. This is even implemented, but is still in the current development
>>version. Release 2.3.3, 2.3.2, 2.3.1 only bring bug fix to the 2.3.0.
>>This let me provide release with less intensive testing. You will have
>>to wait for release 2.4.0, I am sorry for the delay.
>>
>>You must consider the time I impose for the testing of a major release.
>>- I would not be satisfied of my work if I would released a buggy software
>>- I would have a lot of support requests which would eat my all my time
>>and would avoid me doing more interesting things like adding new features.
>>
>>
>>>Also, I provided a patch for the man page which better explains -aa and -ac.
>>>I can remember getting a message the patch was applied, but the man page is
>>>not updated yet.
>>
>>This patch on the man page is also in the development version. (You can
>>get it from CVS, but please don't use it for backing up your system as
>>some new feature will be added before release 2.4.0 that will break
>>backward compatibility from the current development version to the next
>>development version, backward compatibility is assured from release to
>>release, not between two development versions).
>>
>>I am sorry for the delay, as much more as there is still several
>>challenging features that I would like to have the pleasure to implement
>>for release 2.4.0. Then, there will still be a pre-release phase to
>>pass. Thus please, keep patience! :-)
>>
>>Regards,
>>Denis.
> 
> 
> Ah, ok. I know of the concept of development releases, of course. And I really
> like your sense of quality. I just thought the things I mentioned were already
> implemented in the previous development release.
> 
> BTW, you're still accepting man page patches?

Of course! Moreover I strongly suspect that my English is far from being
perfect ...

> I said I was going to help you
> rewrite some sections, but I never did. I still would like to do it. I already
> checked out CVSROOT, which is where you do your development, I presume.
> 
> Now I have to learn man page syntax...
> 
> 

Well, maybe not. Actually, the source of the manual information is the
different man pages which get transformed in HTML from several ad-hoc
tools. I guess, it would be much interesting to have HTML as source and
have a (portable) process to generate from this the man page info pages
or other format...

Thus, if you have some ideas of tools to use and of the information
stream from source to the different final information format (man page,
info page, ...) I'm interested in them.

Regards,
Denis.

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