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 08:38:51 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!diablo.netcom.net.uk!netcom.net.uk!news-hub.cableinet.net!blueyonder!newspeer1-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!news13-win.server.ntlworld.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "chris.danx" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020910 X-Accept-Language: en-gb, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Bindings to Ogg-Vorbis? References: <4519e058.0210080609.3525fa42@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Inktomi-Trace: pc2-bbrg1-4-cust58.ren.cable.ntl.com 1034091530 15034 80.4.70.58 (8 Oct 2002 15:38:50 GMT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 16:37:46 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.1.224.5 X-Complaints-To: abuse@ntlworld.com X-Trace: news13-win.server.ntlworld.com 1034091530 80.1.224.5 (Tue, 08 Oct 2002 16:38:50 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 16:38:50 BST Organization: ntl News Service Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:29590 Date: 2002-10-08T16:37:46+01:00 List-Id: Ted Dennison wrote: > "chris.danx" 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 -- for personal replies change 'spamoff' to 'chris'