Subject: Re: Documentation and explanatory diagrams
From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, Rafael Martinez
	<r.m.guerrero@usit.uio.no>, pgsql-docs <pgsql-docs@postgresql.org>
In-Reply-To: <201007020208.o6228kJ16479@momjian.us>
References: <201007020208.o6228kJ16479@momjian.us>
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Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:28:19 -0400
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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.