Re: ✘asciidoc vs asciidoctor, issue #118

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Greg!

On Mon, 01 Feb 2021 17:50:47 -0500
Greg Troxel <gdt@lexort.com> wrote:

> >> Do you want to take over pseudo-developer outreach. Most people
> >> will just install the distro package(s). Most distros and some
> >> remaining users will build from a zip/tar file which has built man
> >> pages. Everyone else should know how much rope not to take.  
> >
> > Consider that is a packager that raised the issue.  
> 
> I should say that I'm unclear on whether all the asciidoctoring is
> done when doing "scons dist", and if it entirely reliably won't try
> to run when doing build/install.  The real requirement is that when
> someone takes a distributed tarball and does the build/install steps
> that they get man pages in the destdir/prefix they install to.  Over
> the years I have seen schemes like this not quite work right and be
> painful.

Works for me.  I do " scons -c && scons && scons dist".

That not work for you?

> Overall, unless a tool is painful (because it's in a non-portable
> language like Haskell or Java, which this isn't, or because it uses
> QT, which requires many hours of CPU time to build), I lean to just
> requiring the tool and keeping the world simpler.

I find installing AsciiDoctor on Raspberry Pi3 to be very painful.
No way I want that to be not possible.

RGDS
GARY
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