Re: Bindings to Ogg-Vorbis?

["chris.danx" <spamoff.danx@ntlworld.com>]

Ted Dennison wrote:
> "chris.danx" <spamoff.danx@ntlworld.com> wrote 
>
>>Does that include crap documentation or is Ogg Vorbis an exception? 
> 
> Eh?

Sorry I was having a bad day banging my head against a brickwall with 
some stuff.  I've been getting peeved off by the lack of documentation 
for Open Source Software or Free Software for a while now.  It's not so 
much the lack of user documentation that is annoying, usually that's not 
the problem.  It's the lack of documentation detailing the design of 
software, which makes it harder to modify if you're not familiar with 
the system.

At present you have to mess around in the code to see the grand plan. 
It'd be nice for once to see the plan of the system and have details of 
what people modified and for what reason!


> 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. :-)

Free Software is worse, in general, for the kind of documentation I'm 
talking about (which is different from user documentation).


Chris
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