Primarily so that we can build docbook when offline. Also, for speed (for those of us on low bandwidth connections).
On 22 November 2010 10:18, Robert Matthews <[email protected]>wrote: > Can you remind me why we are referencing the DTD locally rather than > online? I Have vague memories about the XML documentation where this kind > of thing was a problem, but we managed to solve it locally (and simply). > > Regards > Rob > > > On 20/11/10 17:42, Kevin Meyer - KMZ wrote: > >> Guys, >> >> With Dan's last use of svn:externals to replicate copies of the >> documentation resources (images and the DTD files) means that an >> "svn up ." takes more than 15 minutes on my system - each directory >> query takes between 15 to 20 seconds, and there are 63 directories >> queried.. >> >> Since each directory is just a copy of the same source directory, can't >> we instead have a script (or some other copying tool) to just copy the >> 3 directories (docbkx/dtd-4.5, docbkx/style and docbkx/images) into >> each destination? >> >> Thus, I am requesting that only the main resource directory is fetched >> from subversion (into, for example, trunk/src/docbkx/*), and some >> other tool copy it from the local location into the required local >> dependent project directories? >> >> I would settle for a simple (shell/command) script, but I realize this >> could become a maintenance nightmare - better if maven manages >> the copying, is this possible? >> >> >> Regards, >> Kevin >> >> >> > >
