Re: Draft RPM Guide available online

Ian Pilcher <[email protected]> Thu, 03 Nov 2005 09:00:51 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.rpm.general,gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel,gmane.linux.redhat.rpm.python,gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.documentation,gmane.linux.redhat.rpm.devel
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Paul Nasrat wrote:
> I'm very pleased to announce that the Red Hat RPM Guide has been made
> available under the Open Publication Licence, Version 1.0.

Does this mean I get my $50 back?  ;-)

More seriously, are there any plans to flesh out the documentation of
the C API (chapter 16)?  I've looked at writing RPM-based tools on
several occasions, but the lack of documentation has always stopped me
in my tracks.  I'm sure I'm not the only person for which this true.

(BTW, I know about the doxygen-generated documentation.  It's useful as
a reference for exactly what a particular function does, what parameters
it takes, what it returns, etc., but it doesn't tell you *when* a
particular function should be used.  Also, "read the source" is not an
adequate answer, not for a project as large as RPM.)

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Ian Pilcher                                        [email protected]
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