[darcs-users] darcs patch: Relegate outdated documentation to appendices.

[Mark Stosberg]

On Wed,  1 Apr 2009 19:01:56 +1100 (EST)
Trent W.Buck <trentbuck at gmail.com> wrote:

> See also http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1312.
> 
> Wed Apr  1 18:57:43 EST 2009  Trent W. Buck <trentbuck at gmail.com>
>   * Relegate outdated documentation to appendices.
>   The information on switching from CVS or Arch, and for building Darcs
>   against GHC 4.4, were the very first chapters in the user manual.
>   This reflected very poorly on us, since it makes it look like Darcs
>   hasn't been actively maintained since CVS and Arch were our serious
>   competitors.  Similarly, many of our users *never* compile Darcs --
>   they use pre-built binaries.  Therefore actually *using* Darcs should
>   be the first part of the manual.
>   
>   Long term I think these sections should be moved onto the wiki, where
>   they can be kept up-to-date by end users.  Right now, just move them
>   to be appendices as a minimally invasive first step.

Sounds great!

    Mark