From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 24 03:30:15 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8404437B401; Sat, 24 May 2003 03:30:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from arthur.nitro.dk (port324.ds1-khk.adsl.cybercity.dk [212.242.113.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A28BA43F85; Sat, 24 May 2003 03:30:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from simon@arthur.nitro.dk) Received: by arthur.nitro.dk (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C052F10BF84; Sat, 24 May 2003 12:30:13 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 12:30:13 +0200 From: "Simon L. Nielsen" To: Marc Fonvieille Message-ID: <20030524103013.GD418@nitro.dk> References: <20030523015453.GF92953@nitro.dk> <20030523141349.GF402@nitro.dk> <20030523203245.GG3794@nosferatu.blackend.org> <20030524085738.GB806@nosferatu.blackend.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="RASg3xLB4tUQ4RcS" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030524085738.GB806@nosferatu.blackend.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: doc@freebsd.org cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Subject: Re: doc build with .OBJDIR X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 10:30:15 -0000 --RASg3xLB4tUQ4RcS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2003.05.24 10:57:38 +0200, Marc Fonvieille wrote: > In fact I'm not really right on that point: the 100MB is in the PDF/PS > format case which needs the images to be in the localdir, it would be > very difficult to deal with links in the generated .tex file. > For the others formats, HTML for example, in your implementation the > images are copied many times in the doc tree (each time a doc needs the > image) which is, as I said in my previous mail, a space eater. It definatly is a bad thing to require that much space for building when it really should not be needed, if done right. > Well, nothing is easy, our .mk files are very "hairy" cause of multiples > add-ons etc. All the thing should be rewritten from the beginning, but > who would be enough "crazy" to take that task? :)) Guess who would... hey, why am I still in CC :-) I'm going to try to write down some requirements on what a new doc build system should support, and I'l post it here, unless somebody else is interested in looking over drafts before doing a wider circulation... ? --=20 Simon L. Nielsen --RASg3xLB4tUQ4RcS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+z0m18kocFXgPTRwRAn2JAJ9xgfyzm4p8lhEKt/HgMZkbs5Ic9QCg1/tS E3t8G/CWNBca6dn4LxrDX2o= =UPVj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --RASg3xLB4tUQ4RcS--