From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3844 invoked by alias); 8 Oct 2012 18:42:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 3830 invoked by uid 22791); 8 Oct 2012 18:42:24 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_NO,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mk-filter-3-a-1.mail.tiscali.co.uk (HELO mk-filter-3-a-1.mail.uk.tiscali.com) (212.74.100.54) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 08 Oct 2012 18:42:18 +0000 X-Trace: 810142895/mk-filter-3.mail.uk.tiscali.com/B2C/$THROTTLED_DYNAMIC/b2c-CUSTOMER-DYNAMIC-IP/79.68.109.216/None/drstacey@tiscali.co.uk X-SBRS: None X-RemoteIP: 79.68.109.216 X-IP-MAIL-FROM: drstacey@tiscali.co.uk X-SMTP-AUTH: X-Originating-Country: GB/UNITED KINGDOM X-MUA: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120911 Thunderbird/15.0.1 X-IP-BHB: Once X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApMBAKQdc1BPRG3Y/2dsb2JhbAANOMJXAQEBBDhAEQsIEAkWDwkDAgECAUUTCAEBiAymSJM+jj6DIQOXAIQ6igSDSQ Received: from 79-68-109-216.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com (HELO [192.168.1.3]) ([79.68.109.216]) by smtp.tiscali.co.uk with ESMTP; 08 Oct 2012 19:42:16 +0100 Message-ID: <50731E8A.8020504@tiscali.co.uk> Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2012 18:42:00 -0000 From: David Stacey Reply-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120911 Thunderbird/15.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [ITP] yasm -- a complete rewrite of the NASM assembler References: <5071EDBE.3010406@tiscali.co.uk> <87wqz1fhby.fsf@picasso.cante.net> In-Reply-To: <87wqz1fhby.fsf@picasso.cante.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2012-10/txt/msg00046.txt.bz2 On 08/10/12 10:23, Jari Aalto wrote: > On 2012-10-07 22:01, David Stacey wrote: > | > | yasm... > > Builds ok, GTG. It would be nice to also to have manual pages[*] for > all binaries. These don't have one: > > usr/bin/vsyasm.exe > usr/bin/ytasm.exe > > Jari > > [*] FYI Debian includes manual pages for those and they are freely > dstributable. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/yasm Thank you for your comments, Jari. Indeed, Debian has a man page for ytasm (but not vsyasm). Said man page is written by the Debian package maintainer and patched in during the Debian build process. The man page is extremely minimalistic, just giving a single sentence description of the package and then pointing the reader at the main 'yasm' man page. It doesn't even fill the screen on an 80x25 character display :-) Maybe the best way to incorporate this man page is to contact the Debian package maintainer directly and see if he would submit it to the yasm developers. Then all distributions of yasm would benefit. If you feel strongly about this then let me know and I'll contact the Debian package maintainer privately and ask about him submitting his man page. However, IMHO the man page is so trivial it's not worth losing sleep over. Thanks again for looking at my package, Dave.