[Distutils] FAQ (was: Re: Bootstrap script for package management tool in Python 2.7)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Tue Mar 30 02:00:50 CEST 2010


Tarek Ziadé wrote:

> For me a FAQ is a list of questions. We add a new question everytime someone
> ask it and it doesn't exists.

The point is that the "FA" in "FAQ" stand for *frequently
asked*.

One can debate how frequent is necessary to be placed in
this category, but a question that has only been asked once
can hardly be called "frequent" by any measure.

(Yes, this is pedantic -- lists of answers to questions are
always useful regardless of frequency. But calling them
all FAQs is technically a misnomer.)

-- 
Greg


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