Re: [PATCH util-macros 1/2] Add XORG_WITH_W3M for HTML to text conversion

2011-03-22 Thread Gaetan Nadon
On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 17:46 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: I'm not volunteering to do it, but I always thought it would be nice if the doc macros actually tried to generate a test doc instead of just checking for tools in the path. It's fairly easy to get xmlto in your path but actually have a

Re: [PATCH util-macros 1/2] Add XORG_WITH_W3M for HTML to text conversion

2011-03-22 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Gaetan Nadon mems...@videotron.ca wrote: On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 17:46 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: I'm not volunteering to do it, but I always thought it would be nice if the doc macros actually tried to generate a test doc instead of just checking for tools in

Re: [PATCH util-macros 1/2] Add XORG_WITH_W3M for HTML to text conversion

2011-03-22 Thread Gaetan Nadon
On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 13:23 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Gaetan Nadon mems...@videotron.ca wrote: On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 17:46 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: I'm not volunteering to do it, but I always thought it would be nice if the doc macros actually tried

Re: [PATCH util-macros 1/2] Add XORG_WITH_W3M for HTML to text conversion

2011-03-22 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Gaetan Nadon mems...@videotron.ca wrote: On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 13:23 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Gaetan Nadon mems...@videotron.ca wrote: On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 17:46 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: I'm not volunteering to do it,

Re: [PATCH util-macros 1/2] Add XORG_WITH_W3M for HTML to text conversion

2011-03-22 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 17:27:22 -0400, Gaetan Nadon wrote: The macros have to be backward compatible. In 3 years from now, no one will have 4.3 installed, so we will need to move up to 4.8. Building older versions of tarballs with older versions of docbook will not be possible. Really?

Re: [PATCH util-macros 1/2] Add XORG_WITH_W3M for HTML to text conversion

2011-03-22 Thread Gaetan Nadon
On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 00:02 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 17:27:22 -0400, Gaetan Nadon wrote: The macros have to be backward compatible. In 3 years from now, no one will have 4.3 installed, so we will need to move up to 4.8. Building older versions of tarballs

Re: [PATCH util-macros 1/2] Add XORG_WITH_W3M for HTML to text conversion

2011-03-21 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Isn't w3m just one of the choices XMLTO might be using? I'm not sure we want to try to replicate all the XMLTO configure options in every one of our modules. -alan- On 03/21/11 04:53 PM, Gaetan Nadon wrote: This tool is used under the cover by XMLTO to convert DocBook/XML to text.

Re: [PATCH util-macros 1/2] Add XORG_WITH_W3M for HTML to text conversion

2011-03-21 Thread Gaetan Nadon
On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 16:59 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Isn't w3m just one of the choices XMLTO might be using? I'm not sure we want to try to replicate all the XMLTO configure options in every one of our modules. There is also links and lynx. I checked that all platforms have w3m. As

Re: [PATCH util-macros 1/2] Add XORG_WITH_W3M for HTML to text conversion

2011-03-21 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 03/21/11 05:39 PM, Gaetan Nadon wrote: On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 16:59 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Isn't w3m just one of the choices XMLTO might be using? I'm not sure we want to try to replicate all the XMLTO configure options in every one of our modules. There is also links and

Re: [PATCH util-macros 1/2] Add XORG_WITH_W3M for HTML to text conversion

2011-03-21 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 5:39 PM, Gaetan Nadon mems...@videotron.ca wrote: On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 16:59 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Isn't w3m just one of the choices XMLTO might be using?   I'm not sure we want to try to replicate all the XMLTO configure options in every one of our modules.

Re: [PATCH util-macros 1/2] Add XORG_WITH_W3M for HTML to text conversion

2011-03-21 Thread Gaetan Nadon
On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 17:45 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Will it do anything if you don't modify all the Makefile.am's to add #if HAVE_W3M ? If you don't want text documentation generated, we should give a flag for that instead of guessing which utility xmlto might call to generate it.