Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] [PATCH][AUTOTOOLS-CONVERSION] add generated manpages

[Matthew R. Trower]

Well, if building manpages is truly a considerable slowdown, I guess I wouldn't be opposed to optionally forgoing compilation in favor of pre-generated files.  But the idea of only having pre-generated pages, and losing the ability to build from source, does not sit well with me. Also, are you going to pre-generate for all platforms?  Various platforms have various incompatible syntax for man. -mrt From: j...@radscan.com Sent: January 26, 2020 1:26 PM To: nicetry...@protonmail.ch Cc: cdesktopenv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] [PATCH][AUTOTOOLS-CONVERSION] add generated manpages Well, a couple of things... 1) how did you test them?  They should also perhaps be checked in a UTF locale - or converted to UTF-8... 2) While I proposed pre-generating manpages, and the help text previously, I got pushback from people. TBH, I am fine with pre-generating the man pages.  They only exist in the C/en locale anyway. 3) What are other peoples opinions on this patchset? -jon On 1/26/20 12:07 PM, Chase wrote: Yes, trying to get these to generate under autotools is a mess, we are going to throw out the docbook sgm files, docbooktoman and the rest and just add the post generation manpages so we can just install them via dist_man1_MANS = something.1, it will speed up build times and make life easier Thank you for your time, -Chase ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Sunday, January 26, 2020 1:00 PM, Jon Trulson <j...@radscan.com> wrote: On 1/20/20 11:39 AM, Chase via cdesktopenv-devel wrote: these patches will make installing the manpages much easier via autotools, as we can just use man1= manpage.1 rather than the whole generated script mess I was working on earlier Hi, Can you explain this in more detail?  These patches would seem to prevent the generation of manpages from the underlying docbook sources...? Currently the autotools branch does not even attempt to build anything in doc/ yet, so these could not have been actually tested yet either...? -jon Thank you for your time, -Chase _______________________________________________ cdesktopenv-devel mailing list cdesktopenv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cdesktopenv-devel -- Jon Trulson "Entropy. It isn't what it used to be." -- Sheldon -- Jon Trulson "Entropy. It isn't what it used to be." -- Sheldon

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