From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: requesting info page (and pdf) doc releases Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:57:30 -0700 Message-ID: <7vtyxqaqg5.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <4AE0C362.3030900@gentoo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Sebastian Pipping , git@vger.kernel.org To: Rustom Mody X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Oct 23 20:57:48 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N1PKd-0008SN-VA for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:57:48 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752651AbZJWS5h (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:57:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752634AbZJWS5h (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:57:37 -0400 Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com ([64.74.157.62]:50493 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752577AbZJWS5g (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:57:36 -0400 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9EE7831F0; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:57:40 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type; s= sasl; bh=nmDZiS4CAeGVPuBTLsRnrfInmAE=; b=f12qN+Zt9BzygwZnWL/xxsV u0WHliIYBmuFFnnOmXKgGyKxdPbWlh2taK4vdBa8nVlM71+aodjFcJ+bHLcs23UR bUbBEE5cwPvKVQKzF6Bf+Ah2I/JP+kYg5GjldQt50ZjFWAtvj1Z8tlu0Ti/UHO5o tjEZdckXBxMpFIX3LRoo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type; q= dns; s=sasl; b=xtow7pzKm+TWkwPP/ecqWqDwNFUrPnGc97nHVAIyQvoclAxe6 +lvaAsuwnjtOoSLwNP3l7d42x79Qu+/K/aqereNoh5dRBN1m7ziZ60SO8UkjOVgG b1Exxu2c4flduh+AGTK56AKQVnwEfpoAZvJ3ezG6DR8nR4gCFYoj7Bc5JU= Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B6C4831EF; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:57:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E2173831EC; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:57:31 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: EE78A264-C005-11DE-8C77-A67CBBB5EC2E-77302942!a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Rustom Mody writes: > On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 2:11 AM, Sebastian Pipping wrote: >> >> would be nice to get info pages (and pdf) doc releases in addition to >> html and man pages. i imagine such a change to the release machine >> should not be too hard to integrate. we could use it in gentoo. > > +1 > Why only gentoo? I would use it on ubuntu or windows as well As I understand it, Gentoo is supposed to build everything from the source anyway, you would not want to use pregenerated info nor pdf, no? You shouldn't be using pregenerated html nor man for that matter... FWIW, you can already say "make info" and "make pdf" yourselves if you have necessary toolchains installed. Integration is not an issue. Neither my primary development box (Debian, which I would test before pushing things out) nor the machine at k.org I use for the final sanity check (FC11, on which the documents are automatically generated) has dblatex nor docbook2x installed. I am not particularly enthused about installing a lot of dependencies for these packages on my machine. I do not want to bother k.org admins who are already overloaded to install these on their machines either.