Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!columbia!rutgers!labrea!decwrl!pyramid!ncc!lyndon From: lyndon@ncc.UUCP (Lyndon Nerenberg) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Sun documentation Message-ID: <1502@ncc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 24-Jul-87 06:04:47 EDT Article-I.D.: ncc.1502 Posted: Fri Jul 24 06:04:47 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jul-87 13:36:37 EDT References: <608@zen.UUCP> <2299@hoptoad.uucp> <21211@sun.uucp> <830@omepd> <7642@mimsy.UUCP> Organization: Nexus Computing Corp., Edmonton, AB Lines: 32 In article <7642@mimsy.UUCP>, chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes: > In article <1499@ncc.UUCP> lyndon@ncc.UUCP (Lyndon Nerenberg) writes: > >... If you use your own macro packages to produce the doc > >then they (the macros) already exist, so there is no (non-politcol) > >reason that they can't be shipped with the troff source. > True. > >Nobody says you have to support the macro package. > I think experience tends to prove otherwise: Some customers complain > about bugs in things released as `unsupported'. This is no one's > fault but said customers'; these people make things harder for > everyone by tending to convince companies not to ship unsupported > tools. Guy was swift to jump on this via mail as well! I don't give up that easy though :-) Don't package it with the standard distribution, but make it available as a seperate "Unsupported Program Offering" and charge a reasonable amount of money for it to cover the media, distribution, etc. That way, those of us who want this type of material will still have access to it, with a clear understanding that "you pays your money & takes your chances". This is essentially the idea behind the AT&T Toolchest (and boy do they charge for distribution :-) [If this discussion carries on it should migrate elsewhere] -- Ollie for president: the tradition continues.