From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 1 15:03:57 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 917441065675 for ; Mon, 1 Dec 2008 15:03:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marc@blackend.org) Received: from abigail.blackend.org (ns0.blackend.org [82.227.222.164]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A9C38FC13 for ; Mon, 1 Dec 2008 15:03:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marc@blackend.org) Received: from abigail.blackend.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by abigail.blackend.org (8.13.4/8.13.3) with ESMTP id mB1F3sdE032791; Mon, 1 Dec 2008 16:03:54 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from marc@abigail.blackend.org) Received: (from marc@localhost) by abigail.blackend.org (8.13.4/8.13.3/Submit) id mB1F3s9F032790; Mon, 1 Dec 2008 16:03:54 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from marc) Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 16:03:54 +0100 From: Marc Fonvieille To: Manolis Kiagias Message-ID: <20081201150354.GA32597@abigail.blackend.org> Mail-Followup-To: Manolis Kiagias , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org References: <20081201080917.GA1330@gothic.blackend.org> <4933EE8D.4020001@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4933EE8D.4020001@gmail.com> X-Useless-Header: blackend.org X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [Sort of RFC] Ports and packages for docs X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:03:57 -0000 On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 04:02:53PM +0200, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > This is actually a nice idea - in fact it would be great for the Greek > documentation set, which is constantly changing as more translations are > added. > I just tried the el package and it works great. I could even include > this in some custom package cd sets I am giving out to people. Having > local docs is very important for people without always-on Internet (and > I know quite a few) > I think we don't (well I should check it) provide monthly updated PDF version, this is a part of my objective. > Since as you said you have a way of automating this, my only other > question would be how often will these be updated. Are you planning, > say, for monthly releases? These are ports, so once they are committed they can be updated. An update by month sounds reasonable, but people can update locally the ports if they need more frequent updates. -- Marc