On Mar 16, 1:00 am, John H Palmieri <jhpalmier...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, March 15, 2012 2:28:02 PM UTC-7, Nicolas M. Thiéry wrote:
>
> >         Dear Sage doc compilation fans,
>
> > Currently, "make doc" calls "sage -docbuild" with the option
> > --no-pdf-links. I don't have an opinion about this specific option,
> > but a very anoying consequence is that if you do a "make" and later a
> > "sage -docbuild", then all the doc is recompiled (GASP!). And
> > reciprocally.
>
> > Is there a very good reason to use different options for "make doc"
> > and "sage -docbuild"? Otherwise, I vote for having "make doc" just
> > call "sage -docbuild". And I let the expert decide whether they want
> > to throw "--no-pdf-links" in those default options or not.
>
> > I volunteer for opening a ticket and implementing it: this will very
> > soon save me time!
>
> Sounds good to me. I can't figure out when it was introduced, so i don't
> know why it was introduced, either. Anyone else know?

A quick search on sage-release reveals #10811: "by default build HTML
doc without PDF links" [1]

IIRC there's repeatedly been discussion about this (on sage-release);
the ticket only refers to the following short sage-devel thread:

http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/04c3d373d5451a96


(So there's a reason we do use '--no-pdf-links'... ;-) )


-leif

[1] http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/10811

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