Re: documentation

[Christian Borup <borup borup com>]

Stephen Wilhelm wrote:

> On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Robin Redeker wrote:
>
> > i really love GTK and Perl.
> > I only wanted to know the status of the
> > documentation of GTK/Perl. The tutorial isn't
> > very complete, styles are not finished yet and
> > the ref is only in pdf.
> > Is there a new release soon?
>
> Depends on what you mean by "soon".  :)
>
> I am currently in the process of rewriting the tutorial in DocBook
> (actually, I'm currently perfecting a Perl script that takes my
> proprietary format and turns it into DocBooks SGML).  There are a couple
> of changes that will be necessary, but I think the benefits outweigh the
> cost (such as automagically generating Postscript and PDF versions for a
> printed format).

Why DocBook and not pod, as most every other perl module?
It sucks not beeing able to say perldoc Gnome...

I guess one could generate pod from the DocBook sources (though hardly very
well), but it does seem rather silly.

./borup