Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-2.hub.org [200.46.204.251]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 871E66338CF for ; Fri, 11 Jun 2010 17:07:33 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.251]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 08045-05 for ; Fri, 11 Jun 2010 20:07:25 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: delayed 07:25:54.167032 by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from smtp.domeneshop.no (smtp.domeneshop.no [194.63.248.54]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C45B633036 for ; Fri, 11 Jun 2010 17:07:25 -0300 (ADT) Received: from [194.237.103.50] (helo=charliex.local) by smtp.domeneshop.no with esmtpa (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ON3Y9-0006d5-NW for pgsql-general@postgresql.org; Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:41:29 +0200 Message-ID: <4C122EF9.5010506@blogg.se> Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:41:29 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?Um9iZXJ0IEdyYXZzasO2?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; sv-SE; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100512 Thunderbird/3.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Cognitive dissonance References: <29FD1BB6-9AD8-485C-B5D2-23D66C15DC97@numericable.fr> <1276182912-sup-2656@alvh.no-ip.org> <16964.1276183440@sss.pgh.pa.us> <201006101733.18062.leif@solumslekt.org> In-Reply-To: <201006101733.18062.leif@solumslekt.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.343 tagged_above=-5 required=5 tests=BAYES_50=0.8, DATE_IN_PAST_06_12=1.543 X-Spam-Level: ** X-Archive-Number: 201006/523 X-Sequence-Number: 164060 Leif Biberg Kristensen skrev 2010-06-10 17.33: > On Thursday 10. June 2010 17.24.00 Tom Lane wrote: >> Alvaro Herrera writes: >>> Excerpts from Peter Eisentraut's message of jue jun 10 02:50:14 -0400 > 2010: >>>> As I said back then, doing this is straightforward, but we kind of need >>>> more than one user who asks for it before we make it part of a regular >>>> service, which comes with maintenance costs. >> >>> Hey, count me as another interested person in a single-file plain-text >>> doc output format. >> >> Well, there are two separate things here: >> >> * providing a Makefile target to build plain-text output. >> >> * shipping prebuilt plain text docs in standard distributions. >> >> I am for #1, not so much for #2, mainly on the grounds of size. But >> given #1 it would be possible for packagers to make their own choices >> about whether to include plain-text docs. > > Wouldn't it suffice to make it downloadable, like the pdf doc? And/or make the HTML version downloadable side by side with the PDF. There are good reasons for wanting access to the complete document when being offline. PDF is not such a bad format but it do have some limitations as have been previously mentioned. As for building the docs I don't think everyone, not even all developers, has the tool chain installed (or even wants to). Regards, roppert > > regards,