[SDL] problems in SDL_Init.3

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Tue Feb 6 16:34:17 PST 2007


Patrick McFarland <diablod3 at gmail.com>:
> esr has a man page bot now?

Nope, I ship these by hand every one in a while.  But they're generated 
from a database of patches and error codes that I've accumulated as I've
worked on doclifter.  I suppose that's a bit bottish :-).

Actually, you can consider yourselves part of a...privileged...few.  Only
about 5% of man pages have the sorts of defects my validator catches.  Here
are more precise figures from my latest torture test, run just an hour ago
on a full Fedora Core 6 installation:

Total:                               13462
Pages throwing errors:                  31 (.0023%)
Pages throwing warnings:               642 (4.7%)
Patched:                               499 (3.71%)
Pages validating with patches:       13431 (99.77%)
Pages validating without patches:    12932 (96.06%)

I think I shipped about 20 defect notices this round.
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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>


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