Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 11 Aug 2007 07:33:47 +0200 | From | Willy Tarreau <> | Subject | Re: Documentation files in html format? |
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On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 01:08:30AM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > > > The problem I have with asciidoc is that it's a nightmare to get it > > to work. It's what GIT uses, and after spending a whole day trying > > to *build* that thing, I finally resigned and asked Junio if he could > > publish the pre-formatted manpages himself, which he agreed to. > > Bit uses in addition to asciidoc also docbook and a bit more. > As asciidoc is some phython scripts it should be trivial to > install with no build required.
I remember it relied on some tools to process xml, but I don't know exactly what. It were those tools which I could not build.
> Maybe it was the docbook stuff you had trouble with?
possible, I don't remember that much, it was a painful day one year ago.
> My Kbuild example were made without using other tools than asciidoc but > if pdf is desired some additional tools are needed.
It was just needed to build the man pages, so I would have expected it to be pretty straight-forward too.
Willy
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