Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 18:18:54 -0300 (ADT)
From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>,
	Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>,
	Rafael Martinez <r.m.guerrero@usit.uio.no>,
	pgsql-docs <pgsql-docs@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Documentation and explanatory diagrams
In-Reply-To: <201007022111.o62LBnA22813@momjian.us>
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On Fri, 2 Jul 2010, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
>>> Excerpts from Peter Eisentraut's message of jue jul 01 21:52:00 -0400 2010:
>>>> Is there something that makes installing dia more challenging than the
>>>> other documentation build tools?
>>
>>> Err, I dunno -- it's just an apt-get away for me, but what will Tom say
>>> when it doesn't work on his ancient HP-UX 10.20 system?
>>
>> I don't try to build the docs on that box anyway --- it does have
>> openjade but such an old version that they don't build.  In practice
>> building the docs already takes much more modern infrastructure than
>> compiling the source code; and besides there are many fewer people
>> who care about doing it.
>>
>> A more interesting question is whether Marc can install a working
>> version of dia on whatever he uses to wrap the tarballs.
>
> One more issue is that the dia and png files are going to impact our
> download sizes:
>
> 	526k     ./dia
> 	483k     ./png
>
> If we generate the png from the dia files, we are looking at increasing
> the source download by 526k and the binary downloads by 483k for all
> existing images and, of course, as we add images, these sizes will
> increase.

Which brings me to a point I brought up before ... do we want to start 
looking at a dist file split similar to what Devrim does for packages? 
lib vs client vs server vs docs vs ... ?  where each could be invididually 
built, or requires a prev set (ie. client would require lib first) sort of 
thing ...


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