Re: kernel support for non-English user messages

From: John Bradford (john@grabjohn.com)
Date: Sat Apr 12 2003 - 02:55:30 EST


> > Today it's all HTML documents or PDFs or something, but it's still
> > a staggering amount of information. I have ~300MB of Oracle
> > documentation on one desktop, 6 of it server error messages alone.
> > Every possible message is explained to some extent, except this one:
>
> IMHO, it'd be better to just make the kernel error messages meaningful.
> Keeping a large pile of documentation in sync with the source is
> a PITA.

You don't have to keep it in sync with the source - just make sure
that any documentation always mentions which versions it relates to.

If the documentation gets outdated, and everybody is aware of that, we
are no worse off than we are now.

John.
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