Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 12:30:13 +0200 From: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@nitro.dk> To: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Subject: Re: doc build with .OBJDIR Message-ID: <20030524103013.GD418@nitro.dk> In-Reply-To: <20030524085738.GB806@nosferatu.blackend.org> References: <xzp1xyqzjxg.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20030523015453.GF92953@nitro.dk> <xzphe7mxudr.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <xzpd6iaxua1.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20030523141349.GF402@nitro.dk> <20030523203245.GG3794@nosferatu.blackend.org> <20030524085738.GB806@nosferatu.blackend.org>
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--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--
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