Changeset 35569 in project

Timestamp:

06/08/18 21:42:04 (21 months ago)

Author:

sjamaan

Message:

man/5: In the "Extensions" manual page, add some links to the egg specification format chapter

File:

• wiki/man/5/Extensions (modified) (2 diffs)

wiki/man/5/Extensions

@@ -89 +89 @@
 and put the egg code there.
 
-Eggs need an egg description file {{<egg name>.egg}}.
-This file indicates how
-the egg is to be compiled and provides some information
+Eggs need an egg description file {{<egg name>.egg}}.  This file
+indicates how the egg is to be compiled and provides some information
 about the egg (author, license, dependencies etc).
+
+The format of these files is described in full in the chapter entitled
+"[[Egg specification format]]".  Below we'll give a few brief
+examples of simple eggs.
 
 
@@ -260 +263 @@
 what files belong to a particular installed extension.
 
-For more information about the available tools and the various
-options they provide, consult the [[Extension tools]] chapter.
-
+For more information about the available tools and the various options
+they provide, consult the [[Extension tools]] chapter.  Again, for a
+full list of allowed declarations in the {{.egg}} file, see the
+[[Egg specification format]] chapter.
 
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