Chris Lyttle wrote:
This resulted in the tarball going from 14MB for 1.7.1
to 4.9MB for 1.7.2.
This rather substantial difference got me thinking that it might be
better for me to split the docs off into a separate package that could
be built and added separately to the main gnucash package.
Oh, absolutely. If you are already working on the docs, we should definitely try to make it a seperate package.
The main difficulty I see with this approach is that the help would bring up an error 'Not found The specified URL could not be loaded'. We could; 1) Leave the error message as is if the docs aren't installed, this would indicate to people that they dont have docs but could also generate bug reports that the docs dont work when its just they are not installed.
2) Figure out some way of 'greying' the help menu items if the docs aren't found. Basically this would just mean getting the help menu items to look for the help html pages and if they aren't there greying out.
Proposal 2) would definitely be even better. But as an easy approach we could also make the error message more verbose: "The specified page could not be loaded. This error occurs if you don't have the 'Gnucash docs' package installed." or similiar.
Sure. You're the editor, so if you are ready/able to choose the more advanced document format just go ahead.I also wanted to let you know that I am planning to make all the new docs xml. This to me has several advantages.
Christian
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