They _were_ removed already - because they broke the packaging. I already mentioned that.
The whole point of this email is to figure out what to do to get the wanted behavior. You seem to be a bit aggressive against it and I don't understand why. Other people have asked for HTML docs - we even build them. Seems we just don't distribute them. I am just building a deb package from sources and I can see that only PDF docs are built. I'll see what happens if i change that to HTML ... Chris ________________________________ From: Rod Webster <r...@vmn.com.au> Sent: November 22, 2020 3:30 AM To: EMC developers <emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] Offline Sphinx HTML docs in project Really, the non compliant HTML docs should be removed and bought in line with the Linuxcnc authoring environment regardless of how obsolete our standards are. There is no place for making exceptions to suit one author. The standard should only change if its applied across the board. Rod Webster *1300 896 832* +61 435 765 611 VMN® www.vmn.com.au<http://www.vmn.com.au> On Sun, 22 Nov 2020 at 13:14, Chris Morley <chrisinnana...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > On 2020-11-21 5:59 p.m., Rod Webster wrote: > > Can't programs (like qtdragon) reliably reference the official published > > docs for the version of Linuxcnc they were deployed with? > > I don't think so. They of course they can reference them on the net - > but that's not helpful if you are offline. > > I'll have to install linuxcnc on a system and see if the compiled HTML > docs are on it. > > > Surely that solves the problem and ensures the docs are always up to > date. > > There is no way I want to depend on offline docs when the living up to > date > > current docs exist. > > The 'offline' docs would be as up to date as the linuxcnc package is. In > QtDragon's case they were actually very similar to our docs and I would > prefer they be the same source. So maybe I'm asking how to create Sphinx > HTML docs from our sources that can be included as installed files. > > Some of this is a similar problem that translations have- the process > of making of docs/translations for a certain part (say qtdragon) is too > big/difficult for the average person. I'd also say the docs are looking > a bit dated these days - I must say the sphinx docs look very sharp. > > > Chris > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
