Martin, Waiting for your decision.
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Alon Bar-Lev <alon.bar...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Martin Paljak <mar...@paljak.pri.ee> wrote: >>>>> But... the only dependency we require is xsltproc, so maybe we can >>>>> rethink this... Provided you agree that building the package with >>>>> --enable-doc or --enable-man requires xsltproc available on build >>>>> machine, we can remove all this useless generation and hacks. >>>> >>>> I think it is not a huge problem to require xsltproc, it is quite common >>>> and small. What bothers me more is docbook-xsl. But the target audience of >>>> people who run make dist and who run make install is different. >>>> But maybe there's more in the autotools philosophy that I don't fully get. >>> >>> OK I will modify the build so that the file will be generated on >>> builder. Much simpler! >> Will this get rid of the symlink magic, and allow: >> >> make dist: require xsltproc, docbook-xsl, don't require playing with >> symlinks (assumes/requires running from version control checkout) > > make dist *WILL NOT* require xsltproc, docbook-xsl. > It will actually only distribute the sources, no generation of files. > >> make, make install: don't require xsltproc and docbook-xsl, use the >> pre-generated man files. > > make *WILL* require xsltproc and docbook-xsl if and only if > --enable-man and/or --enable-doc is specified at configure. > > If you want to avoid xsltproc dependency from make install, we back to > square one (current trunk). > >> >>>> As the only documentation other than man pages is tools.html (should that >>>> be placed on the website somewhere?) one of --enable-doc or --enable-man >>>> is redundant. >>> >>> I do not follow... >>> Do you want to remove the tools.html from build? >>> Or install both man and htmls using one option? >>> I don't think that installing to mandir and htmldir should be enforced >>> as single option. >> I did not notice that the tools.html is distributed (dist_html_DATA). >> >> But does it make sense to install two competing copies of tool usage >> options? If you use the tools, you use the command line, thus using man >> should be a known activity. >> >> If using a web browser, wiki has much more detailed information than in the >> htmlified man pages copy. >> > > Your call... :) > _______________________________________________ opensc-devel mailing list opensc-devel@lists.opensc-project.org http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel
