man pages are good mmkay

Thu, 23 Feb 2006 09:44:13 +0000
tech gnome rant

<rant>Why can't I do man g_assert? Why doesn't GNOME provide man pages for glib?</rant>

Ok, I guess there are some good reasons, but from a user point of view it is pretty frustrating. Of course man pages aren't that great if you are trying to find a particular function that does what you are after, but if you are trying to understand existing code just being able to do man function_name is really nice.

I guess I should stop ranting and start writing, but from initial glances on the intarweb it seems that people aren't that interested in man pages anyway.