Paul L Lussier <pll@lanminds.com> writes:
>
> plasma> Does that mean the we need to compile the svnbook ourselves
> plasma> from now on, or just our new release manager forgot to
> plasma> compile it? (no offend. :)
>
> Ben> Paul didn't compile the book stuff, because, well, it would
> Ben> have made the release process even *more* complex.
>
> I also didn't do it because there was no mention of this step in the
> release.txt file. What's the process for shipping a tar-ball with
> pre-compiled docs? I'll add it to the releases.txt file and try to
> make sure this is done in the future if that's the concensus.
>
>
> Ben> I mean, the latest version of the book *is* online all the time.
>
> I can appreciate wanting the docs local. When I'm using my laptop,
> it's usually easier/faster to fire acroread or gv and read the docs
> locally, especially if I don't have a net connection. Though, to be
> honest, I usually compile the docs myself anyway, now that I know how
> to do that :)
>
> Tell me what you want, and I'll try to provide it.
Considering how big the docs are, how about a separate release tarball
for the docs? I mean, if you downloaded the docs for .24 and look at
the changes for .25 and see that there were no major changes to the
docs, are you going to want to download the (almost identical) docs
again? I sure wouldn't.
-Fitz
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Brian W. Fitzpatrick <fitz_at_red-bean.com> http://www.red-bean.com/fitz/
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Received on Fri Jul 11 19:46:54 2003