Re: New man page toolchain - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: New man page toolchain
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Msg-id 20090802214812.GC5396@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to New man page toolchain  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> What I would like to do now is to switch our man page build process to use
> this last variant.  I would like to ship updated man pages for the alpha
> releases so we can ask users to verify the results, instead of having the type
> of last-minute drama as we had with the 8.4 release, because we only build the
> man pages about once a year and have no good feedback loop.

Sounds excellent.  docbook2man-spec.pl has been a PITA.

> Eventually, I would like to ship both HTML and man page docs without any
> intermediate tarballs as part of the regular tarball creating scripts.

+1

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