On Mon, 08 May 2000, Richard Stallman wrote:

[I never got a response to this--could we finish the discussion?]

OOPS, your message got into the grx-handled folder somehow, sorry.

GRX should run on every X11R5 & X11R6 (tested on SPARC, ALPHA, i386)

I see.

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I have never heard of doxygen. What does it convert from? What does it convert to?

Reads the sources and transforms special formated comments into doc. Output is HTML and LaTeX (maybe more).

Our standard documentation format is Texinfo. So we would like the documentation to be written in Texinfo, or at least in some format that can be converted automatically to Texinfo.

Anyway, doesn't the world have enough doxies already? ;-). (Doxies are whores.)

Yes, yuŽre right. I myself didn't start the documentation because of Texinfo. ItŽs rather difficult on first view (and IŽm familiar with TeX!)

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If substantial changes in the documentation are needed, then they don't have to be made *right away* before the program becomes a GNU package. They have to be part of the plans for future work.

So GRX should be activley maintained to become a GNU package ?

We want every GNU package to be maintained. So whenever you stop maintaining GRX, we would look for someone else to take over.

That's a general policy to deal with problems that will arise in the future. If GRX has particular problems *now* that clearly should be fixed, we need to plan now to solve them.

******************************** I do not maintain GRX any longer ******************************** A few weeks ago I collected all changes from the mailing list, from my private email archive and from a few public net places and set up a unified patch against grx v2.3. This patch also includes BCC2GRX (Borland BGI interface) as I promised to do. Peter Gerwinsky will put it online at www.gnu.de whenever he has some spare time. GRX needs a new maintainer. The major tasks currently are - adding autoconf support for better Linux/Unix build process - starting Texinfo documentation - try to clean up the licence so the Win driver can be integrated - package all things together and release grx v3.0 ! - Support BCC2GRX on other compilers than gcc If *YOU* want to maintain GRX, please send a note to the mailing list grx@gnu.de archive http://www.gnu.de/archive/wilma.cgi/grx or drop me a personal email. RMS: Please cc: any further mail concerning GRX to the mailing list if appropriate. Thanks to everyone who send questions, suggestions, patches or other contributions to GRX. Hartmut