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Provide more documentation and a manpage #6
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I mean, the compile instructions are literally Also, I don't like having the README be structured like a man page. It's simply too rigid for what's supposed to be a simple introductory file. |
for RUST newcomers like me, cargo build --release (and the toolchain setup) was a small challenge :) I'm also not in favor of the manpage structure for the README, I'll check to PoC something. I hope you appreciate my feedback, and support. I feel not, but I may be wrong :D |
see I'll also go for https://www.gnu.org/software/help2man/ for generating the manpage. Possibly with few additions. |
One thing missing, and also compared to alien, is additional documentation and a manpage.
xenomorph misses the base build instructions (and for RUST newcomers like me, it's an issue :D) and usage instructions too.
README.md and xenomorph -h output are already great bases.
alien' manpage can be used as a good complement.
markdown format can be used with cargo mandown.
My proposal is to rewrite README.md to make it more complete, and eligible to mandown conversion for a real manpage and more complete xenomorph documentation.
Note: the remaining issue is that, to be fully manpage ready, README.md would look like
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