On 10/21/18 6:26 PM, Allan McRae wrote: > 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.
Maybe by the time we fully commit to meson, this will be ready for public release: https://github.com/asciidoc/asciidoc-py3 In fact, currently, Fedora uses it -- though via some sort of nonexistent tag or something. :/ > 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. Both those things are also true about the configure and Makefile.in files... -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User
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