From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Barkalow Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.3-rc4 Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 01:52:39 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <7vzm18jg7p.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <200708040341.36147.ismail@pardus.org.tr> <7vsl70jdcr.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <46B3F762.1050306@midwinter.com> <7vfy2zj4nj.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <7v1wejj2j8.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Steven Grimm , Ismail =?utf-8?Q?D=C3=B6nmez?= , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Aug 04 07:52:45 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IHCZ9-0000k7-Jr for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 04 Aug 2007 07:52:43 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754340AbXHDFwl (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Aug 2007 01:52:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754308AbXHDFwl (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Aug 2007 01:52:41 -0400 Received: from iabervon.org ([66.92.72.58]:3980 "EHLO iabervon.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754199AbXHDFwk (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Aug 2007 01:52:40 -0400 Received: (qmail 27320 invoked by uid 1000); 4 Aug 2007 05:52:39 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 4 Aug 2007 05:52:39 -0000 In-Reply-To: <7v1wejj2j8.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Daniel Barkalow writes: > > > It's worth noting that we're a substantial portion of the asciidoc user > > base, at least based on asciidoc's "Projects using AsciiDoc" page. We > > could probably be influential in the asciidoc development if we tried > > (maybe starting with a config file mechanism for controlling what > > characters are markup instead of literal, so that we'll be able to make > > documents which will work the same with all versions of asciidoc). > > Tempting, but... > > * The breakage that triggered this thread was not about asciidoc > but about docbook-xsl. AsciiDoc project cannot do much about > it. > > * The slowness while formatting our manual pages are 50% from > xmlto toolchain and even if AsciiDoc were were to be sped up > 20x, we will still spend 4-5 minutes to format ~140 manual > pages. For the latter, asciidoc ought to be able to generate manpages. Not sure what to do about docbook (for the user manual); it seems generally prone to compatibility problems. Perhaps we should go through latex instead, since that's extremely stable these days, or go straight to html. -Daniel *This .sig left intentionally blank*