X-Original-To: pgsql-docs-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.2]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C58ECD1DC9E; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 16:39:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (neptune.hub.org [200.46.204.2]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 19852-10; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 12:39:38 -0400 (AST) Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (unknown [192.204.191.242]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F1D5D1D613; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 12:39:33 -0400 (AST) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i2BGdJBE020589; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 11:39:19 -0500 (EST) To: Peter Eisentraut Cc: "Marc G. Fournier" , Bruce Momjian , PostgreSQL-documentation Subject: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql-server/doc/src/sgml Makefile In-reply-to: <200403111603.45442.peter_e@gmx.net> References: <200403091853.i29IrgE04192@candle.pha.pa.us> <200403092046.12854.peter_e@gmx.net> <20040309160559.B50574@ganymede.hub.org> <200403111603.45442.peter_e@gmx.net> Comments: In-reply-to Peter Eisentraut message dated "Thu, 11 Mar 2004 16:03:45 +0100" Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 11:39:18 -0500 Message-ID: <20588.1079023158@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at postgresql.org X-Archive-Number: 200403/44 X-Sequence-Number: 2334 Peter Eisentraut writes: > The reason this is all so complicated in the first place is that in the > past we wanted to defend ourselves against broken documentation sources > when building snapshots. As of now this doesn't work anymore, so we > might as well automate the whole process including the documentation > build and be done with these games. Comments? Making the man pages is still non-automatable, no? Folding the HTML document build into "make dist" is probably reasonable, but I don't see that it will make for any big gain in the reliability of the process... regards, tom lane