On 22/10/18 8:12 am, Dave Reisner wrote: > On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 07:54:57AM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: >> On 22/10/18 7:46 am, Dave Reisner wrote: >>> 3) No 'make dist' equivalent. Just run 'git archive' to generate a >>> suitable tarball for distribution. >> >> Is there a way to include pregenerated man pages with git archive? >> >> A > > No, git archive only considers what's in the git tree. Is there a reason > we're determined to pre-generate the manpages instead of just adding > makedepends on ascididoc? >
I think providing prebuilt man pages is more important now we require python3 for testing given asciidoc requires python2. Also, most projects ship prebuilt man pages. I think some GNU ones commit the built page to the tree, so that could be an option. Allan