Re: ✘asciidoc vs asciidoctor, issue #118

[Sanjeev Gupta]

Gary,

I think:

1. Default should be no man building
2. If manbuild=no, then we are at case #1
   
3. If manbuild=yes, than if asciidoctor is not available, hard fail

#3 is from the principle of least surprise.  If I say I want docs,and scons can't do that, fail loudly.

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On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 3:51 AM Gary E. Miller <gem@rellim.com> wrote:

Yo Greg!

On Thu, 28 Jan 2021 14:31:49 -0500
Greg Troxel <gdt@lexort.com> wrote:

> "Gary E. Miller" <gem@rellim.com> writes:
>
> >>   If one does say manbuild=yes, a failure is appropriate. 
> >
> > I do not know how to tell those cases apart in the code.
> > 
> >> This leads to variables having values no/auto/yes, where auto means
> >> yes with a warning only if no tool and yes means fail if no tool.
> >>  A bunch of work that I have no desire to do, but if somebody else
> >> did I'd see it as an improvement. 
> >
> > We would have to replace scons options processor, that would be a
> > PITA. 
>
> > Some other way? Maybe option: forcemanpages? 
>
> If it's hard, I think how things are now is good enough.

Hmm, maybe not as hard as I firsth thought.  I could change manpages
from boolean to string type.  So manpages=false/auto/true

Does anybody want that?

RGDS
GARY
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