Re: README-builds.html update

2015-02-06 Thread Mani Sarkar
I have come across a couple of online html to markdown converters which might help - I hope it makes the process easier: http://domchristie.github.io/to-markdown/ http://markable.in/editor/ This one has multiple format to multiple format conversion facility: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/try/

Re: README-builds.html update

2015-02-06 Thread Magnus Ihse Bursie
On 2015-02-06 18:18, Martijn Verburg wrote: Hi all, So I started digging into this (just the HTML path to start with) and the diff got pretty ridiculous. So I'm going to split the work into several parts: 1.) Fix HTML warnings and convert HTML styling to CSS styling (using internal styleshe

Re: README-builds.html update

2015-02-06 Thread Martijn Verburg
Hi all, So I started digging into this (just the HTML path to start with) and the diff got pretty ridiculous. So I'm going to split the work into several parts: 1.) Fix HTML warnings and convert HTML styling to CSS styling (using internal stylesheet) 2.) Cosmetic changes to improve readability (

Re: README-builds.html update

2015-02-05 Thread Omair Majid
* Magnus Ihse Bursie [2015-02-03 08:48]: > In a somewhat related area: I've been toying with the idea of rewriting the > build-readme in markdown instead, and just generate the html file. Updating > proper, consistent html formatting for a document like this is quite > painful, and we never seem t

Re: README-builds.html update

2015-02-03 Thread Martijn Verburg
Hi Magnus, Thanks, in that case I'll submit a patch and see what people think, if it's too big a change then I can always redo in pieces. I'm personally OK with HTML, pretty used to making it play nice, but have noting against Markdown either. Cheers, Martijn On 3 February 2015 at 13:50, Magnus

Re: README-builds.html update

2015-02-03 Thread Magnus Ihse Bursie
On 2015-02-01 11:16, Martijn Verburg wrote: Hi all, I'm sitting at FOSDEM and was reminded that we hadn't yet made the effort to integrate the "How to build OpenJDK" material we've built up over on adoptopendk.java.net (the incubator site for Adoption Group activities) as well as tidying up some

Re: README-builds.html feedback

2013-08-19 Thread Jonathan Gibbons
Dan, It's nice to see other other people being "picky". -- Jon On 08/05/2013 04:18 PM, Dan Smith wrote: I'm building for the first time under the new infrastructure (late to the party, I know). I appreciate the comprehensive readme page. Here's a list of minor points of feedback: "The set

Re: README-builds.html

2012-06-18 Thread Tim Bell
On 06/18/12 10:25, Andrew Haley wrote: The README-builds.html instructions say... Slow Builds: ... Creating the javadocs can be very slow, if you are running javadoc, consider skipping that step. But there is no information I can find about how to skip that step: I think it's N

Re: README-builds.html

2012-06-18 Thread Chris Hegarty
On 18/06/2012 18:25, Andrew Haley wrote: The README-builds.html instructions say... Slow Builds: ... Creating the javadocs can be very slow, if you are running javadoc, consider skipping that step. But there is no information I can find about how to skip that step: I think it's