You may want to see the explanation at https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/8906#issuecomment-54889577
On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 2:47 PM, Stuart Budd <[email protected]> wrote: > Why does Ansible not provide documentation in PDF format? > > Other software providers provide manage to provide PDF versions. > Red Hat manages to provide PDF versions of their documentation and the > Linux OS is not static and certainly more complex than Ansible. > Oracle provides PDF versions of their products documentation. > CFEngine provides PDF versions of their product documentation. > > The vast majority of software providers manage to provide PDF versions of > their software products. > I can not think of any other software provider that does not provide PDF > versions of documentation. > > The Ansible Tower software has a PDF version of the documentation. That is > not static. > > I feel that the reason provided of "changes are constant" is not a real > reason. > > The online documentation is only available online and therefore somewhat > limited. > The providing of PDF versions of documentation is really the professional > thing to do. > > Maybe it is worth having a re-think as to the reason why Ansible do not do > this. > > > > On Wednesday, 7 January 2015 13:17:28 UTC, Brian Coca wrote: >> >> Docs are available at docs.ansible.com, through the ansible-doc tool >> and man pages, docs are maintained inside the main ansible repo and >> within each module. >> >> There is no official pdf provided, mostly because it is too static a >> format and changes are constant as ansible continually grows. >> >> -- >> Brian Coca >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ansible Project" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/d6fd19a2-9c90-47c0-871b-9b456f260067%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/d6fd19a2-9c90-47c0-871b-9b456f260067%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Matt Martz @sivel sivel.net -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAD8N0v_-sY3xcWPedd2y0f5xJKWAEyg8RpTgBjrfRz7j8X633g%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
