nginx.conf(5) man page

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 06:45:50PM +0400, Maxim Konovalov wrote:

> 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.

Sure, as part of the nginx.org repository.  But I believe the 
original question was about including the resulting nginx.conf(5) 
manpage into nginx distribution, which intentionally doesn't 
include documentation (except minimal nginx(8) manpage).

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Maxim Dounin
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