On Thu, 2016-06-23 at 10:35 +0200, Milan Crha wrote: > Hello, > while playing with developer documentation I noticed that the source > tarballs (eventually `make dist` result) contain also developer > documentation in generated form. These documentation html/ files are > not small, in case of the glib it makes around 10MB. The thing is > that > when I configure with --enable-gtk-doc, then the shipped html/ files > are regenerated, thus it looks like a waste of space and bandwidth to > distribute them. > > I do not know the history behind it, maybe I just overlooked > something > and it does make sense to distribute that too. That's why I raised it > here. > > It would be interesting to know whether anyone uses the html/ files > without --enable-gtk-doc these days, but I understand it's a hard > question.
If I remember correctly, it’s so that the tarballs can be unpacked to give documentation on developer.gnome.org without having to build anything. Philip
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