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

From Marc G. Fournier
Subject Re: Documentation and explanatory diagrams
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Msg-id alpine.BSF.2.00.1007021856560.45189@hub.org
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In response to Re: Documentation and explanatory diagrams  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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On Fri, 2 Jul 2010, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>> On Fri, 2 Jul 2010, Robert Haas wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>>>> OK, everyone seems to like requiring dia.
>>>
>>> I don't like it a bit.  It's hard enough for people to build the docs as
>>> it is.
>>
>> Why should anyone build the docs?  Its part of the tarball process, so the
>> only ppl that should be doing it are those coming from CVS, no ... ?
>
> People often built them to verify the SGML markup and to view the
> content/markup before submitting a doc patch.

Good point ... so, part of the Makefile should be modified for a flag to
disable dia build?  "make NO_DIA=yes" ?  Or, maybe have it default to NO
and for the tarball build, I'd modify the script for building it?

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