Le 9 nov. 09 à 19:15, AUGER a écrit :
> Le Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:53:55 +0100, Gerd Stolpmann
> <[email protected]> a écrit:
>> Am Montag, den 09.11.2009, 17:20 +0100 schrieb AUGER:
>>> Hi all,
>>> for instance, we have
>>> *app
>>> *conf
>>> *godi
>>> patckage types, but what about adding a
>>> *doc
>>> package type for ocamldoc generated documentation:
>>>
>>> compiling a documentation can take some time in one hand
>>> a lot of packages don't have their own documentation (lablgtk2 for
>>> instance),
>>>
>>> so installing or not a documentation is way too general to be done  
>>> in
>>> each configure script,
>>> and many package managers provide them separately, so I think we  
>>> should
>>> offer doc packages
>>
>> There are a few manuals that are distributed separately, but most  
>> of the
>> packages come with "integrated documentation" (and some,  
>> unfortunately,
>> without, or there is only a web site). Either the docs are just a  
>> bunch
>> of already generated files that only need to be copied to the right
>> place, or they are generated on the fly with ocamldoc (sure, it is
>> sometimes time-consuming).
>>
>> I don't see why the addition of a new category makes any of these  
>> things
>> easier. Can you elaborate a bit more?
>
> It wouldn't be easier but cleaner, I think.
>
> When I wanted to use the documentation of lablgtk2, I haven't found  
> it in
> the godi hierarchy godi/doc, where I thought it should be, and the  
> online
> documentation seemed broken (only API part is available).
>
> If you work off-line, you should want to have your documentation
> installed, without having to download it from the web.
> So you should want to generate files automatically.
> But for some other programs, especially for programs necessary only  
> for
> dependances with other, you may not want to wait the documentation you
> won't use to be generated, so you don't want its documentation  
> package.

I didn't get something: what's the problem with just having the  
documentation installed when the package is installed ?

V.
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