On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 09:46:12 -0500
"Timothy Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Thanks for the documentation, but may i ask you not to check
> > in the pdf's? They can be easily generated from the latex
> > source. And checking in a new pdf every time something is
> > changed in will cost a lot of diskspace on the svn server.
>
> Sorry about that. The whole reason I put the pdf there is that I'm
> sure most people don't have the latex tools.
That would be like saying, we should provide binaries for
all C files we have, because most people don't have a compiler.
But fact is that even if some does not have latex installed
it is fairly easy to install latex. Either the linux/bsd distribution
provides them already, or there are special easy-to-use packages
for MacOS and Windows.
And compared to OOo, even a complete latex install is small.
> > If you want to provide an easy to read version for those
> > who do not have latex, please host the pdf on a webserver.
> > (it could be even generated automagicaly with a nightly
> > cron job and uploaded to the server)
>
> Can you help me with this? We can put it on traversaltech, although
> I'm sure they don't have pdflatex installed there. I'm pretty sure
> they have PHP and Ruby web backends.
I can help you in that. A cron job should not be too difficult to
set up. The question is just where to generate the stuff and if
it's not locally on the webserver, how to upload it there.
> Is there any way to spoof+cache a file on the SVN server? So if
> someone tries to download the PDF, a script is run to generate it?
I don't think so, at least i have not seen anything like this.
> Also, can we get SVN to store only the latest version of that one file?
No. SVN is not made for this.
Attila Kinali
--
Praised are the Fountains of Shelieth, the silver harp of the waters,
But blest in my name forever this stream that stanched my thirst!
-- Deed of Morred
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