On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 5:39 PM, Gaetan Nadon <[email protected]> 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 "lynx". I checked that all platforms have w3m. As > a backup plan, I can > add a macro to select one of the 3 in the unlikely event w3m is not > available and someone > has no other way of building docbook in text format. > > This is a nice way of turning off w3m for those who have it but do not wish > to use it. > We had a few complaints about w3m being used under the cover by xmlto. > > In any case, the work will be done by the macro and not in everyone of our > modules.
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 hosed up docbook toolchain. -- Dan _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
