There’s one thing the GNU project has done wrong (and thus the followers of it, like the Debian Linux distribution and others) and it is with their stupid preference to not provide proper man pages but instead insist that the user runs “info [whatever]”. In Debian you also very often have to install a separate doc package to get those info files, and I fail to see the logic in providing tools and libs etc without the proper docs. (and in fact in many cases the info page shows the man page until you get that proper package installed!)
Man pages may not be the best format in the world for docs, but I rather have a proper man page for all commands and then I’ll go html online for extended information. Info is just plain annoying and we should bury it. The sooner the better!
And yes, it is not a coincidence that no project I’m actively driving as a proper contributor are producing any Info documents…
Hence the Advogato article: GNU-Info Bad, Man(1) Good
http://www.advogato.org/article/732.html
Nothing has changed. Info pages still suck.
Since comments to this got wiped by mistake, I’ll repost the link ncm posted here to the advogato article from 2003 basically saying the same thing as my post:
http://advogato.org/article/732.html