From: Jim C. Nasby <jnasby@pervasive.com>
To: Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org, David Fetter <david@fetter.org>
Subject: Re: Get docs for contrib on the web somewhere
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 00:31:04 -0600
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On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 04:19:58PM -0500, Robert Treat wrote:
> > > Yeah, but very few people would ever think to look in CVS for
> > > documentation. I think it'd be much better if we could include the
> > > README's in the documentation build process somehow...
> >
> > I'm all for it. Do you have an idea of how this might work? I
> > suppose some kind of idiot conversion of READMEs to man pages might be
> > appropriate. Dunno about what would happen on Windows. Um, help?
> >
>
> Could we require contrib authors to provide their documentation as sgml, and
> then have the doc build process loop in each contrib module as an appendix
> inside the official docs?
Can't we just copy the text files over somewhere?
Actually, there was talk of improving the way that the contrib installs
handled the README's, so maybe part of that could be used here.
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