From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ea8c1b4966451b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-10-08 07:09:46 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Bindings to Ogg-Vorbis? Date: 8 Oct 2002 07:09:46 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <4519e058.0210080609.3525fa42@posting.google.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.115.221.98 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1034086186 1625 127.0.0.1 (8 Oct 2002 14:09:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 8 Oct 2002 14:09:46 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:29587 Date: 2002-10-08T14:09:46+00:00 List-Id: "chris.danx" wrote in message news:... > Preben Randhol wrote: > > > with all the benefits of Open Source. > > Does that include crap documentation or is Ogg Vorbis an exception? Eh? I just downloaded the toolkit, and it comes with about 1.05 Meg of html documentation. That for about 8.5 megs of libraries (a ratio of about one byte of documentation for every double-word of code!). Quality and quantity are not the same of course, but I think you'd be hard-pressed to find much commercial software with that much documentation. My Visual Studio installation beats that, but only because I installed *all* of MSDN, including stuff I don't have the software for (eg: Visual FoxPro, Visual Basic, WinCE). The VisualC++ docs are only about 1/100th of the size of the binaires. In general, I find this level of support the *rule* for Free Software. For instance, my desktop Make reference is the print version of the online reference at gnu.org. Damn near anything you want to know about any GNU tool is available online at http://www.gnu.org/manual/manual.html . Perhaps the "OpenSource" is important here. I suspect careless people are both more apt to not produce documentation when they release stuff and more apt to prefer the term OpenSource. :-)