[asdf-devel] notes on the manual discussion of asdf-output-locations

[Robert Goldman]

On 3/12/10 Mar 12 -10:55 AM, Faré wrote:
> On 12 March 2010 10:47, Robert Goldman <rpgoldman at sift.info> wrote:
>> 1. The manual in several places uses version 1.6 as synonymous with
>> 1.600.  But if we are to eat our own dogfood and comply with our own
>> version-satisfies function,
>>
>> 1.6 ~= (1 6) while
>> 1.600 ~= (1 600)
>>
>> and 600 > 6
>>
>> I have fixed the references I found.
>>
> Thanks. I fixed more of them, and made other updates.

Great.  Thanks will pull.
> 
>> 2.  In a couple of places the manual suggests making files with names of
>> the form nn-filename.  We should explain what is the purpose of these
>> integers.
>>
> It's for sorting, so you control the order in which configuration is read.

Right.  We just need to say so.

> 
>> 3.  I don't want to repeatedly have to translate stuff out of read me
>> files.  I have put all of the information from the
>> README.asdf-output-locations file into the manual, and killed the README
>> so that it doesn't become an attractive nuisance.
>>
> OK.
> 
> Remains the other README.source-registry to merge likewise.
> 
> Sigh.
> 
> Getting there.

Yes, I should have mentioned that.  I was doing them one at a time.

I will /try/ to get this done sometime today, but it may slip into the
weekend.  Hard to squeak time in for this.

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