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Re: Making autogsdoc a separate package


From: Nicola Pero
Subject: Re: Making autogsdoc a separate package
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 11:24:43 +0100 (BST)

> > We still haven't agreed on whether to build the Documentation in the 
> > libraries by default either.
> 
> The only argument I'm aware of for not building/installing the 
> documentation by default (other
> than the argument from personal taste of course) is that it' 
> error-prone and looks bad if it
> goes wrong.

Building documentation simply doesn't work on my system.

When I type 'make', then 'make install', autogsdoc is run during 'make
install'.  This is plainly wrong, and causes 'make install' to be
unreasonably slow and often/consistently fail on my systems.  Which is why
I always turn off generating documentation.

And I think this should be the default for newbies - they have enough
problems already installing gnustep.  Give them easy/quick compilation and
installation of libraries, and pregenerated documentation.

Documentation does not need to be compiled specifically for the target
machine - you can compile it once and distribute it in html for everyone
else.  Why making life more difficult for new people.  The difficulty of 
installing gnustep scares off many people.  Let's try to keep that to a 
minimum.





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