[X2go-Dev] [PATCH] Edit x2goclient docu

[Moritz Struebe]

On 2011-08-11 10:31, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:20:18 (CEST), Moritz Struebe wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> here is a small patch for the x2goclient-man-page. The wording is a bit
>> different to the help of the client itself. Is it reasonable to reuse
>> the output of man for the application? That way there is no need to keep
>> the documentation in sync.
> The other way round seems easier to me: change x2goclient's --help
> output to be parsable by help2man(1), and generate the manpage from
> this.
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/help2man/
>

Sounds good to me. Especially formatting man-pages sucks! Extracting
documentation to a text-file and including that file into the binary
shouldn't be to difficult. That would simplify maintaining the
documentation and provide a stronger separation of concerns.
@Alex: Any opinion on this?

Morty

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