Chase mentioned build times. I understand that it would be desirable to update and clean up the toolchain.
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
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
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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
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