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From: Marc G. Fournier <[email protected]>
To: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: Robert Haas <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: Rafael Martinez <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-docs <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Documentation and explanatory diagrams
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 18:57:59 -0300 (ADT)
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

On Fri, 2 Jul 2010, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>> On Fri, 2 Jul 2010, Robert Haas wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> OK, everyone seems to like requiring dia.
>>>
>>> I don't like it a bit.  It's hard enough for people to build the docs as
>>> it is.
>>
>> Why should anyone build the docs?  Its part of the tarball process, so the
>> only ppl that should be doing it are those coming from CVS, no ... ?
>
> People often built them to verify the SGML markup and to view the
> content/markup before submitting a doc patch.

Good point ... so, part of the Makefile should be modified for a flag to 
disable dia build?  "make NO_DIA=yes" ?  Or, maybe have it default to NO 
and for the tarball build, I'd modify the script for building it?

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