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Re: generating a manual from annotations in source code

>>>>> "Keith" == Keith Wright <kwright@tiac.net> writes:

    Keith> I would say definitely not, because we want to translate
    Keith> the doc strings into ten thousand different (human)
    Keith> languages and choose which file to use based upon local
    Keith> settings.

(define babelfish
  (let ((Altavista (send-us 'their-code)))
    (lambda (...

    >> Imagine for a moment an application the is extended by GUILE,
    >> but that doesn't load any scheme files (ie. everything is
    >> implemented as a primitive).  I want to copy the exe to "joe
    >> user" without having to install a lot of extra files, but I
    >> want include the doc-strings.  It's nice when you're able to
    >> point somebody at an EXE and say, "copy and run this on your
    >> machine."

    Keith> That's why we have tarballs and RPM's.

 And .deb's. :-)