From 476aebb63c9fa21d4e591684a3f5181169a6e66f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Richard W.M. Jones" Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2020 20:36:56 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] docs: Expand the basic man page. --- docs/goals.pod | 14 +++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/goals.pod b/docs/goals.pod index eca8876..c94cadb 100644 --- a/docs/goals.pod +++ b/docs/goals.pod @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ =head1 NAME -goals - an experimental tool that generalizes "make" +goals - an experimental tool that generalizes “make” =head1 SUMMARY @@ -16,7 +16,19 @@ goals - an experimental tool that generalizes "make" =head1 DESCRIPTION +Goals is a command line tool similar in concept to L — a way +to express dependencies between tasks that need to be done. Goals +generalizes make so it can express dependencies between not just files +but anything such as URLs, remote files, remote builds and more. It +is also very extensible using only shell scripting, and it fixes many +problems that make suffers from. +This manual page documents the command line tool and options. + +There is an introduction and tutorial on writing goal files: +L. + +There is also a reference manual: L. =head1 OPTIONS -- 1.8.3.1