Documentation for libdotconf-dev?

Nikhil Nair nnair at pobox.com
Sun Jan 13 08:27:15 UTC 2013


Hi,

I was recently looking at libdotconf-dev, wondering if it might be a good 
fit for a project I'm working on at the moment.  However, I found very 
little documentation under /usr/share/doc/libdotconf-dev; at least, very 
little that didn't assume you already knew all about the package, exactly 
what it can do, etc (or, at least, all about earlier versions of it).

In addition, though, in the examples/README file under that directory, 
there's reference to looking something up in "the documentation": that 
seems to indicate that there is, indeed, more extensive documentation. 
Where it is, though, is currently beating me.  There's no info 
documentation, only a single, very short manpage, and very little in the 
/usr/share/doc/libdotconf-dev directory itself.  In addition, the other 
libdotconf package (the runtime library) has even less documentation, and 
I can't find any sign of a separate -doc package.

Finally, there's no mention in the package info of a homepage for the 
package, and a Google search didn't bring much up.

I could certainly go through the examples, and piece things together from 
those, but given that one of the main selling points of the package is 
supposed to be its ease of use, I can't quite believe that this is what 
they intend users to do - particularly if you're just trying to work out 
whether the package is a good fit for what you're after...

Any input appreciated!

Cheers,

Nikhil.





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