nginx.conf(5) man page

Maxim Konovalov maxim at nginx.com
Tue Sep 24 14:45:50 UTC 2013


On 9/24/13 6:44 PM, Maxim Dounin wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 06:35:32PM +0400, Maxim Konovalov wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
>>> * would there be interest to include a man page into the distribution
>>>   once it's ready?
>>
>> I think it's a good idea while we manage to keep a single source for
>> both nginx.org docs and man page.
> 
> I actually don't think it's a good idea.  We intentionally 
> have the documentation separated from the source code - it allows 
> to do releases and documentation editing/updating separately (and 
> this happens often).  A separate distribution for a manpage might 
> be a better idea.
> 
Ability to generate man page from xml files doesn't hurt.

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Maxim Konovalov
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