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ASF GitHub Bot commented on COUCHDB-3329:
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GitHub user wohali opened a pull request:
https://github.com/apache/couchdb/pull/457
Remove PDF, TeX/LaTeX and texinfo from the build chain
As discussed on the mailing list, this removes the PDF and info
builds from the default build.
Also includes apache/couchdb-documentation:PR#116.
Fixes COUCHDB-3329
You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running:
$ git pull https://github.com/apache/couchdb 3329-kill-pdf-texinfo
Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at:
https://github.com/apache/couchdb/pull/457.patch
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This closes #457
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commit 942f33e18dccbea68917856c27e32c9d86204393
Author: Joan Touzet <[email protected]>
Date: 2017-03-19T06:20:33Z
Remove TeX/LaTeX and texinfo from the build chain
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> Remove PDF and texinfo targets from default doc build
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>
> Key: COUCHDB-3329
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-3329
> Project: CouchDB
> Issue Type: Wish
> Components: Documentation
> Reporter: Joan Touzet
>
> I'd like to propose dropping the PDF and texinfo targets from our
> documentation build, or at the very least, having them not be part of the
> default target / not standard deliverables for the project.
> We'd continue to build HTML documentation as part of the workflow, naturally,
> as well as the man pages.
> I don't have any solid numbers, but I'm fairly sure most people use
> https://docs.couchdb.org/ or a locally installed copy for their documentation
> for CouchDB rather than the PDF documentation. I personally can't remember
> the last time I opened the docs in PDF form. I also have never seen anyone
> refer to the PDF docs on the mailing lists, IRC or Slack when asking for
> advice or support.
> I've never seen anyone use or talk about the texinfo target.
> Dropping this dependency will allow us to drop TeX/LaTeX from our build
> chain, which speeds up build times by about 90 seconds and reduces the size
> of containers currently being built for our Jenkins CI workflow. It also
> means CouchDB devs don't have to install 0.5-1.5GB worth of toolset.
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