> On Apr 23, 2018, at 3:20 PM, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 23 Apr 2018, Philip Prindeville wrote:
>
>> I was just looking at the contents of docs/libcurl/opts as I work on PR #2495, and was wondering why options like CURLINFO_FILETIME and CURLINFO_FILETIME_T don’t share the same page, since they’re just different versions of the same thing?
>
> There are a few reasons:
>
> 1. I find it clearer and more straight-forward to only document a single function on that single page. Clearer for the reader that is.
>
> 2. It was very easy to do.
>
> 3. Our infrastrcture on the web site (that generates the contents) and tests etc presume this one to one mapping in several places, so it has also been a matter of going with the least resistance or least amount of extra work.
>
> None of them are very strong or says we can't change how things are going forward.
>
>

Got it done.

Should I add cross-references “SEE ALSO” to the man pages?

Otherwise, the PR should be ready to go…

-Philip

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