Markus Neteler wrote: > > I've never noticed it, because man/Makefile silently skips building > > the manpages if Perl isn't present (I don't have it on Windows). > > That's right but "tar" complains (read: warns) about the missing man > stuff later. Perhaps it has to be conditionalized upon perl presence > as well.
It's better to test what's actually required (i.e. the presence of the dist.<arch>/man directory). > > Maybe we should use the Python version from 7.0? Many users will want > > Python anyhow, whereas Perl is only used for g.html2man. > > Sounds good, we would get rid of a dependency. g.html2man.py shouldn't have any actual dependencies of its own. However, I did have to clean up quite a few files in 7.0 to get the parser to accept them (it's an actual HTML parser, and not particularly fault-tolerant; the Perl version is just regexp search/replace, so it might fail but it won't complain). > > OTOH, how many Windows users will want nroff manpages? > > Likely 0.001%. It was more for a potential breakage of the packaging > process. Then it's probably beter to just modify the packager. -- Glynn Clements <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
