On 1/26/20 12:34 PM, Matthew R. Trower wrote: > Well, if building manpages is truly a considerable slowdown, I guess I > wouldn't be opposed to optionally forgoing compilation in favor of > pre-generated files. But the idea of only having pre-generated pages, > and losing the ability to build from source, does not sit well with me. >
Well, it's not a question of 'slowdown', it's a question of archaic BS being used to build them. Simplifies maintenance. > Also, are you going to pre-generate for all platforms? Various > platforms have various incompatible syntax for man. That's another issue - they have not been tested at all from what I can see. So, I have no idea if they will work on any platforms. -jon > -mrt > > *From:* j...@radscan.com > *Sent:* January 26, 2020 1:26 PM > *To:* nicetry...@protonmail.ch > *Cc:* cdesktopenv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > *Subject:* Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] [PATCH][AUTOTOOLS-CONVERSION] add > generated manpages > > > Well, a couple of things... > > 1) how did you test them? They should also perhaps be checked in a > UTF locale - or converted to UTF-8... > > 2) While I proposed pre-generating manpages, and the help text > previously, I got pushback from people. TBH, I am fine with > pre-generating the man pages. They only exist in the C/en locale anyway. > > 3) What are other peoples opinions on this patchset? > > -jon > > On 1/26/20 12:07 PM, Chase wrote: >> Yes, trying to get these to generate under autotools is a mess, we >> are going to throw out the docbook sgm files, docbooktoman and the >> rest and just add the post generation manpages so we can just install >> them via dist_man1_MANS = something.1, it will speed up build times >> and make life easier >> >> Thank you for your time, >> -Chase >> >> >> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ >> On Sunday, January 26, 2020 1:00 PM, Jon Trulson <j...@radscan.com> wrote: >> >>> On 1/20/20 11:39 AM, Chase via cdesktopenv-devel wrote: >>> >>>> these patches will make installing the manpages much easier via >>>> autotools, as we can just use man1= manpage.1 rather than the whole >>>> generated script mess I was working on earlier >>>> >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> >>> Can you explain this in more detail? These patches would seem to >>> prevent the generation of manpages from the underlying docbook >>> sources...? >>> >>> Currently the autotools branch does not even attempt to build >>> anything in doc/ yet, so these could not have been actually tested >>> yet either...? >>> >>> -jon >>> >>> >>> >>>> Thank you for your time, >>>> -Chase >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> cdesktopenv-devel mailing list >>>> cdesktopenv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >>>> <mailto:cdesktopenv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> >>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cdesktopenv-devel >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> Jon Trulson >>> >>> "Entropy. It isn't what it used to be." >>> -- Sheldon >>> >> > > -- > Jon Trulson > > "Entropy. It isn't what it used to be." > -- Sheldon -- Jon Trulson "Entropy. It isn't what it used to be." -- Sheldon
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