Re: Documentation and explanatory diagrams - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Documentation and explanatory diagrams
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Msg-id 1278088099.25901.4.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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In response to Re: Documentation and explanatory diagrams  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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On tor, 2010-07-01 at 22:08 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > On tor, 2010-07-01 at 19:10 -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > > I'm not sure if this means that we don't want to have the PNG files in
> > > our SCM though, because it'd make the doc unbuildable for those
> > > without access to dia.
> >
> > Is there something that makes installing dia more challenging than the
> > other documentation build tools?
>
> No, but it is an additional requirement for diagrams that will rarely
> change.

I dispute that the diagrams will/should rarely change, and also that
changing rarely is an acceptable criterion for breaking the build
system.


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