Gerard Beekmans wrote:
> I was just wondering about the idea of auto rendering the lfs book upon 
> commit to SVN. It takes about 45 seconds to render the book when I just 
> ran it a few times. Adding the time it takes to update the website's 
> news.html file to show the latest SVN changes, it can't be all that much.
> 
> A few things would of course need to be coded into the scripts to 
> prevent simultaneous rendering jobs if two people commit too soon after 
> each other (or the same person for that matter).
> 
> Any specific reason why shouldn't do this?

I don't see any real advantage.  It also could cause problems if a commit that 
made the make fail was made accidentally.

I'd be in favor of doing the render more frequently where the script checks to 
see if a change was made and only rendered if necessary.

   -- Bruce
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