If there is *any* area that #curl is not best-in-class, we should put in more work and improve curl in that area. While at the same time keep up and polish it in all other aspects.
Curl is not best-in-class in having man pages that follow the conventions of man pages. It’s not terrible, but not best-in-class.
What bugs me specifically is that the man pages are not properly sentence-spaced. So you’ll see “curl is a tool for transferring data from or to a server using URLs. It supports […]” with a single space after the full stop, but you’ll also see “(e.g. "path1:path2:path3")” with two spaces after the “e.g.”
I haven’t gotten around to submitting an issue anywhere. Should I? Where?
I checked version 8.10.0. Better man pages in general, I don’t know—curl’s are pretty good. Other man pages (sometimes) follow man page conventions better. An unsurprising example are the groff man pages.
@humm I'm 100% sure our manpage generator can be improved. I think you have pretty high requirements when you say this (detail) makes our manpages not qualify as best-in-class. But hey, your opinion is yours.
Is there any way/tool to figure out which app/service is requesting a download or upload to a command line tool like curl etc. ? This is more a macro view question. Thanks.
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in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •Curl is not best-in-class in having man pages that follow the conventions of man pages. It’s not terrible, but not best-in-class.
What bugs me specifically is that the man pages are not properly sentence-spaced. So you’ll see “curl is a tool for transferring data from or to a server using URLs. It supports […]” with a single space after the full stop, but you’ll also see “(e.g. "path1:path2:path3")” with two spaces after the “e.g.”
I haven’t gotten around to submitting an issue anywhere. Should I? Where?
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in reply to humm • • •@humm then you look on old man pages. We have no two-space sequences and I know this because I have checks for it.
So which project do you think ships better manpages than curl?
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